Below, extracted from an article I read somewhere in Facebook. I added some of my own thoughts too in blue.
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"Being successful is a very subjective term: is it one who is driving a Mercedes and not smiling, or one who is smiling and having bread daily? We don’t want to be a judge for that, but one simple fact is that one can be deemed successful if he can drive a Mercedes and smile daily.
(Rolf's thoughts: Why cannot BMW or other more luxurious car. Ok...I know it is just a metaphor from the author. Nevertheless, I do not think that driving a Mercedes and smiling daily is necessary successful leh! The material part on the surface really mean quite little for truly successful one who most likely already went through the part of extreme luxuries and later enlighten that the material part is no longer as important to choose a simple ......