How about power? With enough money, people might respect you, bow to you, right? Corrupt government servants and rich business man would definitely assumed money is power. That is partially true but not accurate enough to justify the true meaning of money; we do know that power comes after money not before, except for a few special cases. Therefore without money there is no power.
If money is power, how do we justify the power bestowed upon Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King? These are great man that changed the system of the most powerful nation in the world at that time without a single dime. Gandhi brought down the mighty British Empire in India while Martin Luther King inspired an entire nation; to a lesser extend the entire world without using money. Therefore money does not equal to power.