i need an explanation for this quote "Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value"

Question

i need an explanation for this quote "Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value" -albert einstein

im going to use this for my introduction paragraph for my essay, as the first statement, and i need some elaboration on the quote.

help please!

Answer 1

Value is a cognate of "valor", which means courage, merit, value, and endurance.
Success is cognate to consecutive. did you know that? So a success is something that follows another thing: an action or a sequence of actions can lead you to success. Yet it does not mean that you have any merit, any value, any guts whatsoever. Success is given to you by others. Those others can change their mind in a jiffy. Yet if you have value, that is within yourself, you will endure upheavals and you will survive, triumph, yet be humble, objective and not in the illusion of "external", superficial success. Success is illusory. Value is real. Success can also deprive you of your privacy, your freedom, your tranquility. Value will make you so respected that you can be free and tranquil. Always go for value!

Answer 2

I am a fan of Albert's quotes.

I think what he was trying to say is that most of the world sees a successful man as a rich man. I further think he meant that when a man looks back at his life he should cherish his accomplishments by how other's see value in him & not money value. "You are not judged by how much you love but how much you are loved by others." Hope this helps.

Answer 3

You can have all the success that life has to offer but if you do not think good about yourself then is your life really a success. The value of life comes from what you are able to do for others and what others think about you.

Answer 4

A man can succeed and be good, but only a man of value can truly be great.

The idea is that people can succeed in any field, but only a few people can be someone of great value. The world can have 1000s of businessmen or women, but which of those are we going to remember? We only remember men and women of value.

Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft and the one who lead the design team that created Windows will always be known for having once been the richest man in the world, but many people can lay claim to that title. He didn't really invent Windows, he took some of the ideas from the Apple, but he marketed Windows better than Apple ever did. He gave stock to his employees instead of other benefits and because he was a good marketer he made those people rich, but for original thinking and fresh work he won't be remembered for much. However, for the work that he has done in his charitable foundation he will be remembered for a long time. That is what makes him a man of great value.

Carnage Mellon was one of the early American tycoons; for that he would be a footnote in history, but he founded the Carnage Mellon Foundation that built a huge number of libraries and provides a lot of support for PBS. After his death a note was found in his desk. "1. Make all the money I can. 2. Give it all away." He was the first tycoon to start big charitable works. He inspired Bill Gates and Ted Turner to make the huge donations that they have made. That makes him a man of great value.

Einstein got his Nobel Prize for his work on light and that was early in his career. But, his greatest contribution, the one that he is known for is E=mc squared. The equation that lead to the atomic bomb. He was one of the first scientists to tell Roosevelt to make the atomic bomb; he was also one of the first to protest its use. Later he went on to work on the Unified Field Theory, but he never finished it. This was one of his fundamental theories; the explanation of everything. We are still working on that theory today. It combines the 5 fundamental forces of the universe into one basic force. In Einstein's time it was down to 4 forces, now days we have it down to two forces. Physicists will remember him for that, and for his Theories of General and Special Relativity. But, his Nobel Prize work didn't make him great; it only started his great work.

There is no doubt that Einstein was a great scientist, but his continuing work in his field AFTER he won the Nobel Prize is what has made him a "man of value." Few scientists ever top the work that they earned a Nobel Prize for, and those that do continue to work in the same vein. Einstein is known for so much more than his early work on light and optics, and he wasn't afraid to go much further. He became a great spokesman of his time, not just for science, but for scientific morality and the idea that a great man’s work is never done.

Answer 5

I interpretate it to mean that you should not let your life be run by the level of sucess you can attain but rather to let yourself be judged b y the really important things in life those things are a true measure of a persons value

Answer 6

well it basically says that you shouldnt base your self worth on successes...counting all of the things that make u successful as the highlights of your life...instead you should focus on living up to your morals and values, asserting to what is right, and what YOU think is right.

Answer 7

It means hold your integrity rather than just going for the physical aspect of human victories.

Answer 8

Don't let success go to your head, or ruin your compassion for your fellow human beings. (At least that's what I get from it)

Answer 9

Do not strive to WIN, at all costs; strive to be of use, to actually improve things, whether or not you gain from it, yourself.