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IQ - I could hire excellent tutors to make myself more intelligent, though definitely only to a certain point. More to the point, I could hire smart people to think of good ideas for me. I'll concede that I couldn't buy the experience of thinking like someone smarter than myself.
emotional states - Hire some psychologists to figure out what experiences causes people to have them, then buy those experiences.
personal achievements - This one I'll give you; you can't buy achieving something for yourself.
honour - This is a very vague term to me.
As far as I know you can't raise your IQ significantly by training.
There is a lot of data about how much can you raise your SAT/GRE/LSAT/etc. scores by tutors and training and that amount is limited, plus most of the gain is test-specific and not properly a rise in g.
That doesn't buy you IQ, that buys you solutions to problems. That's a different thing.
Let's see how that works for achieving moksha (= becoming enlightened) :-D
This is a temporary effect and not guaranteed even then, but psychedelic drugs are definitely a thing you can buy.