Becker Private Equity & Business Podcast
“Success is Not the Key to Happiness, Happiness is the Key to Success” 5-19-25
Mon, 19 May 2025
In this episode, Scott shares a quote by Albert Schweitzer which has inspired him throughout his career, and also shares an anecdote about a time early in his professional journey where he found this quote to be true.
Chapter 1: What is the main quote discussed in this episode?
Jetzt kostenlos testen auf Shopify.de This is Scott Becker with the Becker Private Equity in Business Podcast. Today's discussion deals with an Albert Schweitzer quote. Schweitzer quote, and I love the quote. The quote is, success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. And here's the concept.
Chapter 2: How does happiness relate to success?
And it basically says, if you find yourself doing what you love, you're ultimately likely to be successful. The concept being that if you work so hard to find success and think that will lead you to happiness, that's not likely the case.
Chapter 3: What is the importance of doing what you love?
Where in contrast, if you work at finding a position, a role, a situation where you're happy and you can pay the bills or a big believer in being able to pay the bills and you get yourself in the right situation, you're likely to be able to thrive once you get in that right situation. This concept of if you...
Chapter 4: How can finding the right situation lead to thriving?
Find happiness in the right spot, you will find success, resonates with me very, very much. I've always find that when I make choices based on where I will be happiest, the success comes and I thrive. And when I make choices based on what seems right, prestige-wise or financially, it's often like putting a square peg in a round hole and I struggle.
Ich liebe diesen Quote, wiederum, Erfolg ist nicht das Ziel der Freude, Freude ist das Ziel des Erfolgs. Um zurück zu gehen, einen Schritt vorwärts zu nehmen, der beste Wahl, den ich professionell gemacht habe, war in meinen Zwanzigern, in Bezug auf die Auswahl eines Jobs. Und ich bin mit dem Firmen, das war der Vorsitzende des Firmen Maguire Woods, der ich seit 30 Jahren war.
Der Firmen wurde als Ross & Hardys genannt, und ich war in meinen Zwanzigern und habe es am Anfang verloren. Three of my close colleagues, Rob Glantz, George Swiatis and Jeff Dunlap, were all at this firm and they were all happy. This was a real rarity at that time in terms of big law firms.
So I at some point left the more prestigious firm I was at, that I was working like a dog at, and joined this firm, Rusts and Hardys, which was really a choice towards, if I'm happy, I'll find a way to thrive. I now have been there for 30 years plus and thrived. So the message is, you find happy and you thrive. And of course, you got to be able to pay the bill.
So I don't want this to be mistaken for find your passion to go broke. No, you got to take care of your family, do things you got to do. But find happy and thrive. I love that. Thank you for listening to the Becker Private Equity and Business Podcast. Thank you very, very much.
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