Taking the "born into money" factor out of the equation:
There is no secret. Everything in life is risk and sacrifice. Watching for opportunities and knowing if/when to take them. Every single person out there have the same opportunities go by them, most just do not recognize them when they do.
When a door opens another one closes, and vice-versa. Most of the time we walk through the wrong door which will always set us back from our goal(s). Once family and children are factored in MANY doors close because your risk to reward ratio changes greatly.
The above being said, from what I have realized if you're not willing to risk big (which means you are willing to take the chance to lose big), then you will never succeed big. I have blinked during deals and saw $50k+ disappear just like that because I chose the wrong door, made the wrong decision, made the bad investment.
But when I speak of risk and sacrifice I am not only referring to money or investments or leaving your secure employment for another or sacrificing your gear supply or your big screen tv etc, I am talking about being willing to do whatever you have to to get where you want to be and if that means risking and if necessary sacrificing your materialistic freedoms as well then so be it. Because imo whether we choose to believe it or not, we are all in prison as long as we are ruled by our governments and their 1% backers!