When we measure our success, it’s often a proxy for how other people view us. Status. Position. Relative rank to the rest of society. This constant comparison is a strategy for misery. The thief of ...

An entrepreneur’s success is often measured by how quickly the business has grown and how wealthy the owner has become. It’s a shallow way to measure achievement and takes into consideration only the ...

When Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman, co-writers of the Oscar-winning screenplay Annie Hall, were interviewed in 1977 by journalist Susan Braudy for the New York Times, Woody would be credited with ...

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The typical assumption is that success is measured financially. Although this may be true for many, in reality there are numerous definitions of success. Each person has their own ideas of what it ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. I recently connected with some of the most inspiring men and women in entrepreneurship. I asked them to share the best advice they’ve ...

Everyone desires success in their own way. Everyone wants to feel that they have properly navigated the challenges necessary to live a “successful” life; with goals achieved. We all have different ...

In the fifth grade, I had an unhealthy fixation with a piece of cheese made from cardboard. Let me explain. Sometime during the first few weeks of school, our teacher, Mrs. Emmert, introduced a ...

A new poll finds that young people are having a tougher time getting started in adulthood, and are starting to define success differently from their parents. A new poll from National Journal and ...

Author-entrepreneur Joanna Penn has a terrific blog post titled “What Is Your Definition of Success? How Do You Measure It?” In it, she emphasizes the importance of deciding what success—in this case, ...

If you didn't, you wouldn't be here right now. And you certainly wouldn't be walking long distances to summer school classes in 104-degree weather — yes, it really is that hot — if you didn't want to ...

“Redondo Beach Debates ‘Heart of the City’” (April 29) states that the city “has never achieved the success” of neighboring Hermosa Beach and Manhattan Beach. How, pray tell, does your writer define ...