How Do We Measure Success

Want to read the rest of this paper? Join Essayworld today to view this entire essay and over 50,000 other term papers

between the lifestyle available to a millionaire and that available to a billionaire is marginal. Unhappily money making can become an obsession, and some very wealthy people become very mean. Money also creates anxiety since it usually has to be put at risk if more is to be made. Other anxieties may be created when a large number of people become dependent on a financial empire. Money confers power which may corrupt. It is often made at the disadvantage of others, and it may damage a business man's relationships both with his peers and with his subordinates. These pressures and anxieties often have a detrimental effect on health and on family life. One's wife and children are inevitably neglected and unhappy. The children of successful capitalists or career workaholics sometimes reject everything the father or parents stand for. Success thus means failure.

It is of course possible, though unlikely, that worldly success can be combined with a sensitive and therefore ...

Get instant access to over 50,000 essays. Write better papers. Get better grades. Already a member? Login

in thought


confer

to give


worldly

relating to the ordinary life


This post that I'm about to write is a pretty deep one. I suppose for today we can call it the personal deep journey. When someone asks me this question call "Why?", it completely boggles me. I look back at the direction in life which I took and wonder why did I take this direction? For some aspects of my life I have a clear answer to the "Why?" and for other parts of my life, actually a lot of other parts, I don't have an answer to why I took this certain direction.

Very few things that I'm doing these days -- including the businesses that I own, home that I live in, or this ...

Succeed in your coursework without stepping into a library. Get access to a growing library of notes, book reports, and research papers in 2 minutes or less.

CITE THIS PAGE: