I don't quite agree with this

This, of course, sounds very noble, but, realistically speaking, do people who succeed want to see others succeed too? Especially in the same niche? I don't think so. What do you say?

 

Success isn't always about owning a business and earning lots of money. Perhaps when you wish people well and have a lot of kindness and positivity towards others, that makes you a more successful person in life.

Success is measured in different ways. Just another way of looking at it.

 

So, what you are saying is, if let's say there's another satire news agency that does everything to get you out of business (by stealing your traffic), you will still wish the best to them?

Or will you clench your fists, grind your teeth and say: I'll show you what I've got, punks!

I think it's a relevant example.

 

I personaly like to see other people do well. Even in my own niche I've helped some people out. Feels good when someone sends me a message thanking me for helping them make money. Thats just me though, one day it will bite me in the ass

 

I always think that and try to help other people to make success in his business or anything.

 

That makes you kinder. Not more successful.

The image doesn't convey multitude of ways to "look at it". If you notice, the succesful siluhette is helping the other one get up to his position.

Even disregarding that, it's plainly obvious this "helping hand mentality" has no correaltion with high positions in society. There is a reason the word elitst exists, there is a reason you redirected the topic to "other ways to being helpful to someone". It's precisely the opposite actualy, and part of the reason why this photo isn't more popular.

I think this is more of a "made to cater" than to represent something of reality. In other words, an image made out of servilitude.

 

Amen to that.

When the "Big Store" (you all know which store it is, right?) moves in, it puts a lot of small mom & pop shops out of business. Does it mean it's evil and "unsuccessful"? I don't think so. At the end, it does more good in a week, than all those mom & pop shops could do in fifty years combined (figuratively speaking).

I think that image was created by someone who consciously or subconsciously hates big business and true success. Can't prove it. Just a hunch.

 

I don't disagree with what you're saying. I'm just providing some food for thought.

All my life, I've wanted to be 'successful'. Lately, I've started to think, 'What is success anyway?'

Whether or not this picture is intended to specifically mean business is one thing, but I do believe that it's not necessarily money and fame that brings success.

Does a kind and warm-hearted person die a successful one? I think so.

 

It doesn't have to be about the business. The point this mindset is trying to portray is that helping others should never end, if we are supposed to carry the sentiment, it should go as far as equality. Which means even to provide the other with the means to end you, should he will it so.
And this just has no application in business in particular, or life in general. Not to the things we hold more dear.

You who think of success alturistically are the same that has a door which locks with a key.

What you've lately started to think, I've been there way before. From philosophy to Hugo's The miserable. 'Your' outlook is not exactly "modern" so to speak. Got it?

 

@SocialSignals, I know my outlook is not 'modern'. I know I'm not the first person to ever think that...

And you literally just said exactly what I'm trying to convey - it's not all about the business.

 

I'm saying I've already encompassed your thoughts.
And what you are portraying doesn't work either in life, nor in buisness. Life has developed out of "Survival of the fittest", and as stated by a former member, chain buisnesses close down smaller ones. Which means that altruism is a happy thought, but it finds itself stopped dead in the tracks by us people ourselves. Would you feel fine about sharing your child with a stranger? Or your crush? I thought so.
I'm not truly relaxed about letting meaning escape the word, success stand for achiving a goal in general, and when applied to people it's that event which happens to few people which divides them from the norm.

It always has to be a few because success is a feature that can be present only upon greater contrast.

My almost final bit was about how you don't act out from the ethical standpoint you preach, meaning that you yourself betray your standing.

 

Different outlooks on life, I suppose.

 

While I also don't fully agree with what the picture is trying to convey, it got me thinking... What about the rather modern niche that is motivational speaking? Essentially that's businessmen in various niches, somehow successful, that are passing their thoughts and advice to novices in the same niche. Even without giving them exact directions, they are passing their ideas and the mindset that rocketed them where they are today. Is this process helping other businessmen get better? I can safely say 'Yes'! Same goes for any type of conference, convention and meeting of professionals.

Just a passing thought...

 

hmmm....succed its doesn't matter..the matter is every people are selfish.i selfish you selfish and they selfish...no one can think about other happiness.thats why succed people want to other people in fail and failed people want to follow succed people way to succes in his life....

 

What utter BS. Just because you might be selfish and only think about yourself doesn't mean that everyone is like that.

 

I don't think it has anything to do with success but it does speak about the morality of a person.

Look at Bernie Madoff. He was "successful" for almost twenty years "helping others succeed" and look what happened to him and his family.

 

Not all of them are selfish. Perhaps all successful are once unsuccessful only . Huhh

 

Another "great" gem I just saw:



The truth: Strong (mentally, emotionally, physically) people constantly put others down just by their sheer presence. And everything they do for you always comes across as condescending.

The image should go something this: