Simply accumulating money is not, basically, a sign that one is a successful human being. A miser can do that, but as a man he is a failure. Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one’s world. Mozart, who was buried in a pauper’s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer—that is the ultimate success.
