That’s a very interesting way of looking at it. More likely I would call it greedy than evil; but evil and greedy may seem interchangeable for most people.

-Andrew

Unfortunately, no matter how much we may strive to point out the distinction between the the *love* of money being the root of all evil and *money* being it, people will tend to take one of the two extreme sides:

1. But money is everything… you can’t have anything without money. Conflating money with even such things as happiness, success etc.

2. Money is evil. Everyone pursuing wealth is selfish. Let’s all tax the rich!

Eh.. would be nice if everyone actually focused on value. Lots of value = wealth, nothing more. Money is merely one possible representation of wealth. But certainly, you can’t create value for other people if you already jump straight to the effect: having wealth for yourself.. Ok, done preaching to the choir.

There is one more thing though. If someone made me choose between “money = evil” and “money = good” I would choose the latter. I think the whole connotation with evil, even if you speak of love for money, is slightly hyperbolic. There are real evils in the world, and loving money don’t do them justice. Even if you’re getting it all wrong and chasing money, so long as you never steal, use force or fraud on everyone I wouldn’t really call you evil, just a little misled.

Cheers

-Andrew

Success is achieving whatever you aimed to achieve. If its to make $10 next week and you achieve it, then your successful.

Same as if you plan to make$100,000 next week and you achieve it, then you are successful as well.

People to many times compare their success with others around them.