Showing posts with label useful. Show all posts
Showing posts with label useful. Show all posts

Sunday, August 16, 2009

Successful or Useful?


When asked what he wished to become, as a young man, Nobel Laureate Albert Einstein was reported to have said, "I want to become a useful person, not a successful person."

Asked what he meant by it, the eminent physicist replied, "A successful person is one who takes from society more than what he gives it. A useful person is one who gives the society more than what he takes from it."