Daisaku Ikeda is a failure as mentor, unlike Shakyamuni Buddha and Nichiren

"The mentor is seen as a failure when the disciple is unable to surpass or exceed the mentor's own accomplishments." - Daisaku Ikeda

No SGI member has come close to being a billionaire who has converted so many tens of thousands of members. However, Nichiren never asks you to be like him, unlike Ikeda and the SGI who exhorts, "Be like Shinichi Yamamoto. Nichiren followed the Lotus Sutra:

“Kashyapa, it is like the plants and trees, thickets and groves, and the medicinal herbs, widely ranging in variety, each with its own name and hue, that grow in the hills and streams, the valleys and different soils of the major world system. Dense clouds spread over them, covering the entire major world system and p.135in one moment saturating it all. The moisture penetrates to all the plants and trees, thickets and groves, and medicinal herbs equally, to their little roots, little stems, little limbs, little leaves, their middle-sized roots, middle-sized stems, middle-sized limbs, middle-sized leaves, to their big roots, big stems, big limbs, and big leaves. Each of the trees big and small, depending upon whether it is superior, middling, or inferior in nature, receives its allotment. The rain falling from one blanket of cloud accords with each particular species and nature, causing it to sprout and mature, to blossom and bear fruit. Though all these plants and trees grow in the same earth and are moistened by the same rain, each has its differences and particulars." - Chapter of the Medicinal Herbs