Do you agree that real wealth is acquired from honesty?

Wealth is a product of hard work, honesty setting realistic goals and attention to detail. The swindlers lose their ill gotten gains. The only real question that needs to be asked is if the pursuit of wealth is the goal in life or not. The ultra rich will meed their Maker just as will the poorest of the poor. Just as a side note. Poverty is not the result of someone else having money. Poverty is the result of spiritual illness.

No. I believe most wealthy people have told a few lies here and there to get where they are.
I also see people driving expensive cars and buying expensive houses and they can’t afford any of it.

Under a capitalist system, money is most easily made by using money to essentially "buy" more money. Investments use poorer people as personal labor forces in order to create more profit. Ask any rich person, and they will tell you: the most effective way to make money is through passive income. That is--you making money while doing nothing.

That doesn't take much work or honesty. Given that the population is 1% psychopath, and 25% of CEOs are psychopaths, I'd say honesty has little to do with it.

Capitalism rewards greed. And obtaining profit however one may do so. Honesty has nothing to do with it.

The primary precept of capitalism is supposedly, "an honest day's work for an honest day's pay." But, what work does an owner of a company do? Virtually nothing. He simply already has money, so he can use that money to hire more workers to make him more money.

Lobbying is also hardly honest, which a great many corporations use liberally to destroy worker protections, pretending they're doing workers a favor by, say, raising minimum wage, while taking worker protections away with the other hand.

No. Honesty or hard work is not how money is made. Poor people think that way.

The question is more than a bit unclear. I believe it's still true one can't point to a single person who got wealthy through hard work and honesty alone. On the other hand if one means rich in all the immaterial things in life, that seems to be closer to truth. But the majority of honest, hard-working people (even in developed countries) work themselves right into an early grave.

NO....watch the movie "The Founder" ... its the story of McDonalds and you will know that this is a very untrue statement.

Also you are not clear as you say its derived from hardworking and discipline... yet asking about honesty...all 3 are different values.

The story of McDonalds contains ALL 3 in the story LOL

NO LOL

I disagree entirely.
Might have been true a couple of hundred years ago but certainly not now.
These days companies get successful and then put all kinds of barriers in the way to prevent others from taking a similar idea, improving on the very thing they've created, and selling a better product/service as a result.

Things like copyright law and patent registry are so ambiguous in many sectors people fall foul of them all the time in their quest to see their own ideas come to fruition.

All that and we haven't even touched on the lobbying of businesses and politicians who have power to ensure the failure of anything/one they find threatening to their power base.

there are many different ways to acquire it. some honest. some dishonest. its not all black and white.

Hmm rather than what you buy it's how you earn. Some people may wear gold with honest living others may have simple life, but be an owner of 6 digit figure by gambling, extortion, tax evasions.

No. Honest and hard working people can acquire “wealth” in whatever form they want.

Some people are really good and figuring out what they want and work to get it.

various kinds of wealth, financial being the least

The end does not justify the means.