This article and every comment is missing the point almost completely. Success is measured by how hard your willing to work to complete your dreams and how muc

This article and every comment is missing the point almost completely. Success is measured by how hard your willing to work to complete your dreams and how much of that hard work you actually do. So if the man who owns the small hardware shop dream was to own a small hardware shop and live a simple life then he got there and if hes happy hes successful. Maybe he had dreams of something more but was unwilling to put the time in. The home depot guy put the time in and worked his butt off to build his dream. The same applies to startups. You guys can have Ideas, 4.0s and 39 act scores but if you don't put the time necessary to achieve your dreams you will never, EVER get there. Success is how happy you are. Nobody can measure it and its different for every person. The best definination I can think for success is how happy the person is, in other words the goal of life is to be happy. Also remember to achieve big dreams you need to give up BIG TIME. If anyone here has read East of Eden by John Steinbeck he visits these exact ideas. Its lonely at the top.