Success to me, is being self-employed, working my own hours, and operating my own lucrative business.

Making a lot of money, owning a house, putting your kids through college, traveling, saving for retirement, ... Stuff like that. You can't have success without money.

Work wise, I'm self-employed now. Any month where I get paid and am able to pay my bills and have money to sock away, even if a very tiny amount, I consider myself to be a successful business owner. Sure, I want to make as much money as possible. But for me, I tell everyone being my own boss is more about lifestyle. For me, I've cracked the code, I'm able to do what most people would love to do, ya know, be their own boss and get away from the boss and office politics they hate. So, because of that, and because I can pay my bills through my business, I feel I'm successful. However, my bank account isn't millions and stuff, so to some they may consider my business a hobby lol. Money matters to more people than others. For me, success isn't always defined by an amount of money.

Success is being paid well to add value to other people's lives and businesses. Also having the ability to control your time and space to do what you enjoy while adding value is key.

Many will find worldly definitions of success to be deceptive and tragic. They tend to focus on what is short-lived and passing and they ignore what is lasting and eternal. I try to define 'success' in terms of what is spiritual, lasting and ends in eternal life and joy. Seek it, you'll be so glad you did!

Success is your own definition. Personally, to me it's just having a job you don't mind doing every day (also known as tolerating) and it pays decently enough that you can pay your bills, live modestly and not have to rely on others or other financial assistance.

Corporate success, on the whole, doesn't mean to reach point A or B. It's not walls; I'm simply stating the obvious i.e. successful corporate types thrive on branching off of (and building upon) their expertise and experience (and ladder climbing) which is how/why many become CEOs, CFOs, company presidents and so on (an obvious measure of corporate success as is salary relative to demand/one's value) or find themselves at the helm of their own startup. As mentioned by many, an early retirement is often indicative of (past) corporate success as well; it is not, however, typically defined as 'starting over' (on the bottom rung) by returning to college for a new major. The idea is to push one's vision and/or knowledge/ability/experience as far as it can go, often branching into entrepreneurship or even philanthropy - perhaps teaching at a university as a guest lecturer and so forth, but rarely returning to college for an entirely new career. Those who leave the corporate world to return to college do so (more often than not) because they have lost interest and/or been unable to find a level of success they desire i.e. frustration. The reality is such that many don't excel; else, they'd be able to transition easily into a new (interesting and challenging) opportunity/direction of their own accord (as successful people do all of the time).

I see corporate success (and climbing up the proverbial ladder) as separate from personal success i.e. making a difference in, or impacting, others' lives (though I wouldn't go as far as to say impacting humanity, heh). Money and corporate success (i.e. happiness/being challenged by one's work) is a means by which to accomplish the latter as well.

It's loving what you do because if you like it you will never work a day in your life. I was very fortunate to get into the field I am in... it was really an accident just meeting the right people at the right time in my life. I have never hated going to work. I never thought about a hump day, never looked forward to Friday or dreaded a Monday.

Retiring at 50.

My success was in my previous career in tech. My contributions were around high performance just in time compilation of code and data. If you search hard enough, you can find my published work.

EZ success not have to work for a living.

Learning that: 1. Money is not a measure of success. 2. Friends aren't a measure of success. 3. Goals reached or not, aren't a measure of success. Being happy with what you have, do and done is enough.

Money is a goal (and a tangible measure of success); point being, one must like their job in order to put the forth the effort and performance needed to obtain it. That leaves little time for 'boredom'. That said, the entire point of acquiring money is so one may enjoy their life financially - and look to personal success as well i.e. relationships, passions/hobbies, making a difference, whatever. While everyone/anyone may become disenchanted or burnt-out; it's far less likely if one is intellectually challenged daily (and has the financial stability to pursue what one enjoys to blow off steam/stress).

In the corporate world, I actually think the goal of making as much $ as possible is more valuable than whatever passion you might have for the job. If you have that mindset you can ride out the times where you become bored, disenchanted, or burnt out from your job, because the carrot is still the same. Most of the 'successful' people I have met in the corporate world have money as the foremost goal. Not all, but most.