Success is not about money and power. Real success is about relationships. There's no point in making $50 million a year if your teenager thinks you're a jerk and you spend no time with your wife.
Interpretation
Real success is measured by the quality of our relationships rather than wealth and power.
In this quote, Christopher Reeve emphasizes that true success should not be measured solely by financial gain or status, but rather by the meaningful connections we foster with our loved ones. He argues that having wealth is meaningless if it comes at the expense of our relationships, highlighting the importance of spending quality time with family and nurturing those bonds that truly define a fulfilled life.
In practice
To inspire a team seeking to redefine their success metrics during a corporate meeting.
I think we all have a little voice inside us that will guide us. It may be God, I don't know. But I think that if we shut out all the noise and clutter from our lives and listen to that voice, it will tell us the right thing to do.
Either you vegetate and look out a window, or activate and try to effect change.
Once you choose hope, anything's possible
Nothing of any consequence happens unless people get behind an idea. It begins with an individual and they share the idea with more individuals-and eventually it becomes a movement.
We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.
The key to success is letting the relationships in your life grow to the highest levels they possibly can . . . not putting yourself first in life and remembering that the more you give away, the more you have.
A good reputation for yourself and your company is an invaluable asset not reflected in the balance sheets.
Only in America could a refugee girl from Central Europe become secretary of state.
If you try to make such projects, unseen by others, as perfect as any human could, you'll develop skills that other professionals don't have.
At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.
If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.
The surest path to success is to surround yourself with brilliant women
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