A choice: poverty or prosperity

" I hated poverty. Poverty is more of a choice than anything else, and i can change that (poverty). It depends upon how hard i want to work, and i decided that i would change it." -Dr. Ben Carson

  What this means in my opinion or in my point of view is that most of us are born with poverty but doesnt mean for all are life we can decide to change it if we work hard enough and try really good but if we decide to be lazy and do nothing about it well we will stay in poverty and also we are the ones who decide either we change it or not or we decide to leave it.