"I mean you so often hear about those that took a big risk and it paid off, but never about those that took that same chance but lost it all."
This is the difference between the US culture and the Finnish culture. In Finland all you hear is how people never succeed at anything and success is the outlier. Our news paper titles go like "Bob put 1000€ into a very promising business. He lost it all". Whereas in the USA newspaper articles go like "Bob put half a penny into Amazon when it was worth nothing, now he changed his name and we know him as Jeff Bezos" So basically talking bullshit to make it sound more appealing.
I think the best would be to be somewhere in the middle, where you could hear the good and the bad about wealth management. However, those who write about the stuff in the mass media, rarely know anything about it.
RE: Get Rich Quickly While Getting Rich Slowly