Success is Relative

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Success is relative. It can take on a variety of end results, depending on the subject. Like success, wealth is relative. Material wealth is one of the easiest things to quantify, but is one of the hardest things to let go.

What I propose is this: invest first in the way you think and process your thoughts. In that way, you could tame your desires and instincts so as to make it easier for yourself to reach material abundance. A person not trained to deal with such a prosperous catch will find himself unable to spend and preserve his wealth in a wise manner, and will soon find himself wanting again.

Insofar as the stock market is concerned, success is always relative. First, the stock exchange would probably be earning from the transactions; second, there would be jobs to be filled in creating value through the services provided to facilitate transactions; third, everyone - including the two primary parties, buyer and seller, would always believe that he is on the winning side. The buyer believing that what he would get is a bargain or a fair trade; the seller believing that what he got rid of was only fitting of disposal at such circumstances.

Then we meet the long and shorts; market goes bullish - euphoria and spread the word that it is indeed raging. Market goes bearish - let it bleed, because dripping blood is money flowing to someone shorting.