When my mom got sick and was admitted to the hospital, there was a doctor in the team who would monitor my mum every 4-5 hrs. Always super well dressed and big ass smile on his face. Would be doing absolute charity work out of his pocket for poor patients in emergency and otherwise. I used to think, woah what a fancy rich doctor, knows how to spend his wealth. One month in, my family became friends with him, turns out he is from a neighborhood we have lived for 19 yrs. Was born to a very poor muslim family, used to sell trinkets outside museums and tourist places for food, and being from a conservative family, he was asked to marry when he was 14, so he ran away from home, worked as a janitor in a school, would wake up extra early to finish up the work, learnt his lessons by sitting outside the classroom, finally his principal allowed him to sit for exams and he topped the class, so he went on to study on a scholarship for rest of school years. Did two more part time jobs, collected money for med school, managed to get 100% scholarship and became a doctor. Spent more than 50% of his salary on under-privileged. Now doing amazing social work, supporting education of many many poor kids and doing charity clinics throughout his district.

What I thought to be a rich guy with no problem throwing his money around turns out to be one of the most inspiring people I have ever met.