You do know that just because people are wealthy, powerful, successful doesn't necessarily always mean they are smarter. They could be thieves and liars and all their gains are ill-gotten and all their power was by strong-arming and threatening and intimidating. You do know that do you not?
So whom do you look up to as being "better than" you? For what and why? Who looks up to you? If any do why do you suppose they do? Do you look up to you? Because?