Success means more than making money.

Success means doing the best we can with what we have.
Success is about doing, not about getting – about succeeding, not winning. Wynn Davis.
The most important discovery in life at the age of thirty-nine, I first understood what it meant to be successful. What have I achieved? I became CEO of a Fortune company.  Did I bring home my first Mercedes? Did I win the lottery? Did I win a huge amount of money in the game and want to be a Millionaire? Nothing like that, I just made a simple but profound discovery. I discovered, how life works and what’s most significant in life. After years of groping around.
I understood what it means to succeed in life and how to go about it. With this… I had always lacked two things: a sense of inner peace and a sense of self-worth. Plus, I began to enjoy life more than I ever had before. What was the fundamental discovery? Is there a blueprint for success?  I’m convinced there is. But you won’t find it nicely prepared and tastefully packaged, nor will you see it advertised on television. It’s nothing new, no secrets, no magic. That’s why this manual is a bust. It’s very old, too simple, and too innocent. But it works. After years of historical, philosophical, and psychological study.
I’ve come to realize that life and success can be boiled down to a few basic principles that we’ve known for thousands of years. In search of the recipe for the “good life”. I took several paths and eventually found myself where I was where I started, with what I call the old-fashioned truths. As Edward Albee says in his play It Happened at the Zoo, “…sometimes it is necessary to take the wrong road for a long time, to get back right and fast.”
Does this book contain instructions? Can you find it among the 20 offered? I hope so. If you apply these ancient principles consistently, you will understand and experience the true meaning of success. I am truly convinced of this. A Swedish proverb says we grow old too fast and grow wise too late. Maybe that doesn’t have to happen. Maybe you’ll my book will help you wise up before I do. And if you’re older, that’s okay. It’s never too late to learn. The smartest people in the world are the ones …are who can be happy.
We can’t seem to make up our minds about whether money is bad or good. If someone is said to be successful, it usually means they are rich. So wealth must be good. But they also say that money can’t buy happiness. So it must be bad. Wealthy people donate billions of dollars every year to needed projects, which is good. But haven’t we heard that money is the source of all evil? So they’re back bad. Poor people criticize the rich but would like to be rich. So how is that so? Is money good or bad? Neither. But we live in a society where money is often associated with success, so we must analyze it. We need to clarify some of the myths that circulate about money, and we need to look at it from the right perspective. In connection with money, I would like to draw attention to two phenomena:
1. Money is not bad
Does the Bible say that money is the root of all evil? No. The Bible says that the love of money is the root of all evil. That is a big difference. There’s nothing wrong with money. Wanting to have money is not wrong, and having it is not wrong, even in large quantities. The key question is how we get it and what we do with it. Money honestly acquired and well spent can do a lot of good. Can it buy happiness? He who said probably didn’t have enough. It can buy much more happiness than poverty. I think the best way to solve this problem was described by Pearl Bailey when she said, “I was poor, my dear, and I was rich. Let me tell you, being rich is better.” And it’s true. Success, and money, are probably better in most cases. Being rich is not illegal or immoral, but it’s not everything.