How do you really define success? Does it always have to do with cash?
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For such a general question, I will begin with a general answer, and rather good quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson:\n\n"  To Have Succeeded   "\n \nTo laugh often and love much;\nTo win the respect of intelligent people\nAnd the affection of children;\nTo earn the approbation of honest critics\nAnd endure the betrayal of false friends;\nTo appreciate beauty;\nTo find the best in others;\nTo give one’s self;\nTo leave the world a little better,\nWhether by a healthy child,\nA garden patch,\nOr a redeemed social condition;\nTo have played and laughed with enthusiasm\nAnd sung with exultation;\nTo know even one life has breathed easier\nBecause you have lived…\nThis is to have succeeded.\n \n                Ralph Waldo Emerson\n\nI think it is doing more and achieving more for yourself and others than is expected. Or having worthy goals and being able to achive them. Success is discovering your incredible potential.\n\nThe word “Success” by itself is too broad of a subject to pinpoint. Like the word “Truth,” it involves relationships with other things. Presumably, the question involves success in one’s life, but which aspect? If you nail down the relationship, then a specific answer is possible. If you are asking about monetary success, then it’s all about money, but if you’re talking about spiritual success, then it has nothing to do with money. \n\nDefine your question better, and you will get a better answer. This is because success concerns itself with the proper function of things, their purpose, and the correct interaction with, and use of things. We can discard the use of the word as a synonym for happiness, which is a Western reduction of an abstract concept to a sensual level. Even if you asked "What is the measuring stick of success?" you would still have to ask "In relation to what?" or "What purpose?"
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So Tim had one of the multiptude of online testing tools.\n\nTo be successful is really an approach to life. A lot of averagely intelligent people have been successful (e.g. myself), a lot of highly intelligent people have had mediocore success at best.\n\nA winning approach is descibed in the book "Rich Dad, Poor Dad". If this is the only self-education book you ever read, do so. The approach here does not require exceptional intelligence, in fact in many ways conventional wisdom and booksmarts work against it. Anyway it worked for me.\n\nWith regard to starting your life with the assumption that life is unfair, that other successful people have advantages that you don't or whatever, definitely means you will not be successful. There are no insurmountable hurdles to success in the USA.
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More so.  But I don't measure success in terms of money.
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In what regards? \n\nBy measuring success in general, you are better able to assess what is working and what is not.
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Hard Work!\n\nYou can't achieve success without it and lack of it will surely result in failure.
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success is the process to convert a little man to abig champ.\n\n An event is singular, meaning it happens one time. Success is not measured by an event, rather a succession of events, or something being proven over and over
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hari is right and wrong. \n\ninertia of success is the the achievments which come along with the achievement of a prelimnary success/target. The achievment of this success lays foundation of future successes. But this is not true in all cases.\nThere have been cases where companies taken by the inertia of success, have failed in delivering success in future because of their complacent attitude (read:over confidence) because of past success.\n\nMost companies today face the obstacle of overcoming the inertia of success, and achieve succees not thru inertia but thru proper force/effort.\n\n\nhttp://in.rediff.com/money/2004/aug/12guest1.htm\nhttp://www.kk.org/newrules/newrules-6.html
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Just think that,the only thing U've is ur present minute.What has passed ,has passed and will not return.\nYesterday is a canceled check , tommorrow is a promissory note,the only cash U have in ur hand is today.\nToday is a gift that's why it is called present.\nRisking is the backbone of success.think positive and go for a change.if you feel like , then U can mail me also on swami.neha@yahoo.com
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Successful people make their own luck.  Passively waiting for it is a loser's game.  Successful people gamble where the odds are in their favor, by starting needed businesses or buying stock in promising companies, for example.  Losers gamble where the odds are against them.  The healthier losers call this "entertainment", the unhealthy losers seek sympathy for their losses, and the delusional losers call this "investing".\n\nAnd remember winning the lottery is as frequently a nightmare as a dream come true.  Unless you give it all away to charity, you can never trust any non-rich person to like you for yourself instead of your money.
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An intelligent question in Yahoo! Answers for one.\n\nThere are two types of success.  Internal and External.  Internal success deals with self fulfillment, inner peace and satisfaction with your self.\n\nExternal success has to due with wealth and social status.  This is what most Americans think it should be measured by.
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Net worth, traditionally.  Some wannabe's try to claim millionaire status because of gross cash flow in a year; but, it ain't what you make, it's what you keep that counts.
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What is success? Is it attending an Ivy League University like Yale just because your father went there, even though you're a complete moron? Is it earning millions of dollars each year even though you're morally bankrupt? \n\nMake people really think about what it is to be successful, and how they should conduct themselves both personally and professionally in order to attain success.
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My opinion is that too many people associate happiness with monetary worth but have their priorities in the wrong order. While it is true that money can provide certain things in life that will in turn bring a type of happiness, the most common mistake is in thinking you have to have money first to be happy. That's a bit rhetorical in that it's easier to be happy first than to have the money first. Not many of us are born with a silver spoon in our mouths so we have to work for living to make this money in order to have the financial freedom that is commonly associated with happiness. Therefore, its my belief, that you first have to be happy with yourself and like what you do to make a living. When these two things take place simultaneously then more often than not you will be good at what it is you do to make money. When you're good at your work then you climb the ladder of financial success and the money comes by virtue of all this.
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Thinking as someone who is still depending on parents for living, earning money is not so difficult. But once when we think that no one is there for us to lend a penny, then making money is difficult. It means that we need lot of patience, hard work, and and most importantly talent to succeed or survive in anything.
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It definitely means you succeeded.  I mean the goal was to fail.  So if you've accomplished that goal then you have in turn succeeded at failing.
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you don't sell every wealth that you have... another example is the wealth of knowledge you have. They are intangible wealth.\n\nAlso, remember payments for all sales don't come in the form of money.
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Sometimes, more than the almighty dollar, entrepreneurs are attracted by the sheer "freedom" they get from running their own business.  It can also go along with the "satisfaction" and "pride" in "doing your own thing".  To me, money is an underlying thing, but it usually comes to those who truly enjoy what they are doing and who do it well.  So there it is, "Freedom, Satisfaction and Pride"