While your utilitarian philosophy (the only measure that counts is success) might make sense on the surface, many people (including me) believe that utilitarian

While your utilitarian philosophy (the only measure that counts is success) might make sense on the surface, many people (including me) believe that utilitarianism has a number of problems. First, your relative success today doesn't mean that you will be more successful or successful at all today. This is similar to the fallacies of greedy algorithms in computer science, if you're familiar with them. Secondly, utilitarianism will not give you happiness, which is pretty much the most important thing in life, more important than financial success.