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My personal success comes from my family, my children...
Marcus Red Thunder Success is nothing more than doing what you like to do. It has nothing to do with how much money you're making or how many hours you work or how many people you supervise or how big your job is. If you're doing what you want to do and it makes you happy, then you're a success.
Kaye Byrnes A lot of what our culture teaches us is that there are certain jobs that are good and certain jobs that are not. But life is too short to do something that is not fun, and if fun for you is being a garbage recycler or being a tax attorney or whatever then if you're really doing what you love then all the other obstacles in your life will switch around to where they're not so important.
Mark Sedenquist and Megan Edwards Success is getting up and looking at that person in the mirror and feeling good about who you are and feeling that you have done something, no matter how small it is, to try and improve the quality of life of those around you, whether it be chipmunks or people [laughs]. I feel like I'm a link in a chain and here's my time to contribute and as long as I'm thinking and moving that way I feel like I'm successful.
Will Atwater I don't define success as wealth or position. To me it's about enjoying life, and what I'm doing affords me the opportunity to enjoy my life. I'm not going to look back and say, "I didn't do that or I didn't do that." I'm making other people happy and that makes me happy. I think that makes me feel successful.
Brian "Squirrel" Hager Success for me would simply be that at the end of my life, certainly I'd love to say that I've left all these films behind, that I left all these stories behind, that some stranger somewhere was affected by something that I had thought about. And it wasn't so much ego as it's a need to share the way I felt about the world, or share my ideas, or share my emotions with people.
Mark Tapio Kines Success is happiness and has nothing to do with how much money you make. It's how much you enjoy your lifestyle. For me, I have a lot of free time to do what I want. I love my job and I can do the work whenever I want. Whatever I do, it has nothing to do with money, but inner happiness.
Eang Ung I define success as how well you inhabit this earth and how much better you make it for the next person. That's success. What did you do with the endowments in your life? Did you spend it on yourself?
Joe Femiani The easy way is to define success is to try and quantify it. It's dollars or units or acres, but I think that's the wrong way. Success to me is: can you define a target or an objective and reach it?
Craig Leiser That is what success is, some level of security and an amazing amount of passion. I think if you have those two you are successful.
Dave Arnold Success is an evolving thing. Success is being able to say that if I died today, if I went out there and got hit by a car, I wouldn't have any regrets. All the people that are important to me know that they are important to me and I have that secure. I know that what I want to be doing at this point in my life is having this conversation with you. Success is being able to say that if it all ended today where you are as a person is the best person that you can be at that point. I don't necessarily define success with anything like money or false security or anything like that.
Joe Schmaderer A lot of people have the misconception that success is money and that's not true. Success has a lot to do with pride in what you're doing.
Richard Rhoades All I want to be is happy and comfortable. That's success... enough food on the table, some money in the bank, and healthy.
Louann Bebb Success is a balance. Finding my career is only half the picture... It's important to me to not focus on or get absorbed by one thing. Know what two or three things are important to you and balance those out.
Ryan Fleur I define success as happiness or if I'm living up to all my dreams. I think your dreams should be more of a reality in your life.
Stephanie Dowling Success for me is happiness and exceeding the goals that I've set for myself and the company.
Rick Born To me success is only in your own eyes. There are so many different levels and degrees of success one might define as success. I know some people who are laborers who in my opinion are successful. Having wonderful standards, ethics and morals is part of success.
Al Chartier Success for me is doing something that stimulates my own intellectual growth. Something that makes me feels good. And I think what makes me feel really good is watching others grow, whether it's training people in the business world or teaching them in education. .
Kristi Blass I used to define success by my role models which were millionaires and I don't consider that success anymore. To me, business is not machines and money, it's people. When I am successful with people, I am successful. In a nutshell, that's how I define success.
Marvin Wengerd I guess my measure of success is different. I thought a successful person is somebody who does everything and is the best at whatever she does. So I thought to myself that I would be the best psychiatrist - whatever that means. That means that they should know my name in other parts of the country because I'm doing something important. That belief has since shifted because that takes too much of your own personal life to achieve.
Maureen Goldman To be allowed to create video games and take the stuff from my head and watch kids play my games and to think, "Yeah, I made that!", that would be success.
Tom Velazquez I think people's definitions of success change as you go through life, and I think that's what I'm going through right now. I think six months ago, my definition of success would have included a townhouse in downtown Kansas City, a brand new SUV and being able to take a trip to wherever. Now I think it's changing for me. Now I'm beginning to think success is just being happy. I'm starting to focus less on material things and more on my well-being.
Todd McElfresh Success for me is peace of mind. I don't have to look over my shoulder any more. I don't have to worry about the cops coming to get me. I don't have to worry about rival gangs coming to get me.
Antionettea "Dreadie" Etienne I think everybody has something they should be doing or were born to do. That could be several things. It could be five things. But, finding one of those things and being happy with it is how I'd define success.
Scott Behmer Success I think is if I'm happy with myself and feeling good about what I'm doing to pursue where I want to be. It has nothing to do with how much money I have because you have it and then you don't. I think success is reaching your goals to whatever capacity. It means trying to be the best at whatever it is you're trying to do.
Sherry Leigh The whole notion of success is a real personal one for everyone. It's a personal decision. My notion of success changes all the time. It's not a static thing by any means..
Barry King I guess in a way when you think about success, for me, the true way to success is following the path that the Lord has laid out for you. Then you find a great sense of confidence and value. You're not struggling or searching anymore. That's where I'm at now. It's been a gradual process and plan for me. It didn't happen overnight.
Nick Passero Success for me personally is being loved by my children, loving my children, knowing that I'm a good father, enjoying being a teacher, and being as ethical as I know how to be, and accepting everyone for exactly who they are.
Gordon Brooks Success is being happy and satisfied with your lifestyle and the friends that you have.
Greg Johns I define success in many multiple levels. On a very personal, existential level I define success as having achieved some piece of mind. If I get to a point where I'm comfortable with myself and my place in the world and the people I've chosen to surround myself with then I will have defined that as being a successful human being. Having said that I think there are other levels of success: financial success, success in one's career. Another very important aspect of success to me is being satisfied with what one does for a living.
Boris Vatel Success is being happy with what you are doing and when you can go to bed at night and be satisfied with what you did during the day.
Heather Rizutto The world expects financial success for you to be a success. For me it's being content with my life today, being happy with who I am and what I have. And that's hard enough to grasp.
David Belitz Reaching a point where day to day you feel you've accomplished what you want to accomplish. Your making some difference in the world that you wanted to make... Getting to grow is important too. You should never reach a point where you have no longer have anything to seek or anything to aspire to. As long as you have a set of goals and you think what you are doing is helping you grow as a person you are successful.
Brendan Kehoe I would define success as being first stable of mind, stable of body, and stable of spirit. I think that definition came about through my own personal transformations and rebirth and constantly trying to find some sort of stability and balance. I think primarily success for me is balance in all three of those levels.
Hanif Bey A lot of people measure success in a dollar form, an economic form. I would say that we [Amish] don't. We'd like to think we have peace and harmony in the family, the church, the community.
Reuben Troyer Success is just first having a purpose, knowing yourself.
Cindy Wuu Success to me is hard work. It's just busting your butt every chance you get and putting in your dues and staying late. Although when you get a family, it changes a little bit. It's almost like you have to do a whole lot more work in less time, but you have to make the most of everyday. To me success is hard work and being recognized for that.
Scott Cosco Success is the ratio of all you put out to all you get back... You put out some combination of things: time and effort and risk and maybe money, and inconvenience. All this stuff you spend: effort, sweat, etc. And you get a back a bunch of stuff: money, interesting friends, sex, and interesting places to live, and fun conversations, and new toys. So there's this whole set of transactions that are going on all the time. How do you choose to spend your time and what are you getting in return? Success is just coming up with a nice ratio of these things.
Steve Roberts Success is being able to translate my vision into my reality, taking my dreams and making them tangible. It takes knowing yourself, first and foremost. In the things and qualities and perspectives, beliefs, values, whatever it is that is intrinsic to you, follow that and do that without fail. And as long as you do that, you have every tool and every way to create your means to an end.
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