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Chapter I
Success What It Is
Chapter I Success What It Is - What is success, the authentic definition of success? I used to think that to be successful meant having lots of stuff like nice clothes, the latest gadgets, trips and a steady job. I'm not saying these things are not good and desirable, but they are not what make a person successful, at least not in my book.
Do you know people who have all these things and are still miserable? By the same token, do you know of people who have the "stuff" and are happy, and people that don't have the "stuff" and are happy?
You see, it's not about the things. Things do not make you happy or successful. You make you successful!
An excerpt from How to Grow Success
by Elizabeth Towne 
What is Success?
Success is not money, nor is it fame. The King in the ancient fable turned to gold all that he touched, and starved to death. The "Sick Man of the East" has wealth galore and world-wide fame, but so abjectly afraid is he that he is never a moment alone; never tastes a dish that has not first been tried on a menial; and springs to his feet with pistol in hand if his best friend across the table happens to make a quick movement. Money and power he has, but not success.
A successful man is not necessarily a rich one, but he is a man who can command all his desires. Among money kings, it is said J. Piermont Morgan is not rated a very rich man. But he commands more money than any other man in the world. It is said men confide in him because of his fine business sense, gained by using his own judgment; and because "he does exactly what he agrees to." He never asks advice and he keeps his mouth shut unless he has something special to say. Then he says it, in the simplest and fewest words possible. This is concentration, the mode of success.
In Chapter I Success What it Is you'll discover what Elizabeth Towne (the author) means when she says that:
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