"Success"is measured by "how much money you make/making"? agree/disagree?

hi sayo, Basically, many of us think that success depends on the money we are making in our life. I also overheard some people who see others as successful once they travel abroad and making big amount of money capable of having a good house and buying their own car. I think, once a person is living under poverty, that person thinks that being rich someday is already a success. However, when it comes with rich people, some of them have different thinking. Success means having a complete family and being with trusted friends. Actually that word has a very broad meaning. It differs from person to person. I am already earning a good income but still I cannot consider myself successful. The reason is that, I do not achieve my dreams yet. I am still working on it. But some of our neighbors think that I am already successful because I have a stable job and have good income.

Do not need money, success in your heart

Success is not measured by how much money you have in the bank nor how many countries you've traveled to. Success is measured by what others have become because of you.

I completely disagree with it. Success cannot and shouldn't be measured by the money one earns. It is just that people think that way as you said. Money can buy us many things and make us rich. But it cannot buy us happiness and success. If a school going child gets a good rank or good marks in the class test or exam, for him it means that he just succeeded in a task and is thus successful. And for a mother to be successful, it can be anything like if she cooks good food and makes her children happy. Money can mean success to a rich businessman but not to everyone. According to me, many people consider that if they have money then they are successful just because they can buy whatever they want to and fulfil their desires. But they do not understand and realise that money will bring them success and happiness only for a jiffy but not for a lifetime. They realise it only when they lose something which was more precious than anything else.

Yes, in life we need money. However, we can not measure everything with money. We can buy supporting tools for our life, but we can not have wisdom and happy life with money alone. There is more thing in this life, such as time spend with family. Therefore, there is many training and seminars on passive income. But for me there is no real passive income that really works without us control it. More money mean more responsibility and more time to manage it. We should not sell our happiness with money. To me success is measured by two thing, money and personal life. One of it fail, it means no success, because life is unbalance.

success is not measured by how much money you have. i disagree to that. success is determined by satisfaction. If your satisfied then you are successful.

No I don't agree, I think success should be measured at how happy you are with your life, how happy you are with yourself, many people with a lot of money are not happy so to me they have not made a success of theit life.

I think being successful means you're happy. You don't need a lot of money you just need to feel good about life and stuff. I wouldn't care what life I had as long as I was happy about it. However some people are more materialistic and want lots of expensive stuff to feel good about themselves. You can't say that they're wrong though, because everyone has different views on what is a "good" life.

I don't agree. I think success should be measured by the person not by society and should be measured by the number of life goals they have reached and to what extent those goals have been reached. Basing it all on money means that a woman who is a teacher, mother and wife earning $30,000 per year is less successful than an unmarried software programmer who earns $60,000. Or that a tattoo artist who is doing what he loves every day of his life but only making $20,000 a year is less successful than the Governor's press secretary who makes $50,000 a year but wants nothing more than to open his own bakery. Success should be something we measure for ourselves because only we can know how we truly feel about the accomplishments we have made in life and it should be weighed based on what those accomplishments are rather than how much money we are making off of them.

For some it is, but in general I disagree. I think that really success is measured by how well you follow up on the goals that you make and if you exceed your previous expectations on them. Granted for some that is making a lot of money, but that is obviously not the only goal that a person could in fact make. Success is really just achievement. And achievement comes in many forms. An absolute multitude of forms, there are just many times where a person who lives a comfortable lifestyle is successful, with good health. Successes come in so many forms, it is difficult to rather pigeonhole everything. And perhaps success is finally finishing a project as well. There are just so many factors with success that it can be astounding.

It's a basic measurement for success of one person. That is the very first impression on a so call successful person on average. Of course not all people agree with it as success in a person's life cannot be measure or judge by other. There are too much elements hidden to be measured. As long as we live happily and satisfy with our life, then we consider as a successful person.

I can see to some extent the thought behind this, if your successful in life you'll also be successful in your career and therefore make lots of money. Its hard to be successful from at anything if you live on a park bench. Meanwhile its rare that any of the wealthiest people contribute much anything to society. Einstine was successful but not rich, most nobel prize winners aren't rich, and Mother Teresa was definitely not rich. I think the ability to take care if basic needs is part of being successful, but the amount made really isn't. Most of the wealthiest people in the world are nobodies. They never did anything of any significants beyond making money, and quite frankly if that's the only thing you're good at, that could hardly be considered successful.

I don't really agree with that..Being rich is absolutely good thing..For success, I think success is when you know your goal, grow up to reach your maximum capacity, sowing seeds that could give benefits to others etc.. source: http://everyfacts.blogspot.com I'm new here btw..Hope we can get along :)

yes i do feel that this is true

No not necessary if more money means more successful person because now people are doing 2 no. work and earning money. Successful means they takes the reputation in the society and feel good by heart means if we are working innocently and getting success then this is successful person. Some person who has more money but they are in jail how can say they are success. Everyone is success in their life if they trust on God, hardwork and themselves.