You can only make money from money because you will always need capital to start any business really you want to make money.
Yes, otherwise you need some special skills that you don't have to invest with for example being a graphics designer, a developer or even a youtuber can earn good profits.
Coming back to topic, yes if you have capital and look to earn with it, you can try various ways, if I would have big chunks of money I would actually do arbitrage gambling or just bitcoins price trading, both require mammoth capital to get significant profits.