A man who want to improve himself should first know that the most valuable asset is his inner-being. Everything in the world is the creation of the thought of man, means, not material wealth but what makes it, is the biggest wealth. We can buy anything with money, but we cannot buy this. This may bring wealth, but wealth cannot make this one. Many of us running after material wealth without knowing this secrete. When we run after material wealth or worship it, we lose all other qualities, the real wealth, and what we amass will not help either us or anyone else. So don't run after the creation of human hands and bow down to them but think about what make human being able to create, that force resides in everyone. Worship it, awake that force. In Bible, Isaiah says it very clearly in his book chapter 2:8-9 this truth. This kind of worship will bring human being low, because he will involve in any kind of activity to achieve what human hand and fingers have made - uses sword and spear.
If we want to know more about it, we have to read the verse Isaiah 2:4. Here we can see a clear picture of attitudinal change. Isaiah says,"They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks". What we need to beat our swords and spears into plowshares and pruning hooks? A change of inner-being, attitudinal change. A change from destructive mind to cultivable or constructive mind, that mind is the asset.
Those who bear sword and spear in their hands cannot "cultivate" anything, means will not have any "culture". Only those who bear plowshare and pruning hook can cultivate and produce.