This essay discusses how success can be misleading for entrepreneurs. It provides three examples from literature where the characters' definitions of success were misleading: 1) In a poem by Emily Dickinson, those who have not succeeded often view success as sweeter than it truly is. 2) In a story by Edwin Arlington Robinson, a man named Richard Cory appeared successful to others but committed suicide, showing his true unhappiness. 3) In a story by Anton Chekhov, a man accepts a two million dollar bet to stay in solitary confinement for five years, viewing the money as a measure of success but underestimating the toll on his well-being. In each case, the

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Feb. 1, 2016
Essay #2
How can success be misleading?
For entrepreneurs, it’s hard to know when to call what you’ve started a success; after all, the
danger lies in the many definitions of success. In the Poem, by Emily Dickinson, entitled “Success is
counted sweetest,”the quotable phrase, “by those who ne’er succeed..” Those who adopt a misleading
definition are at risk of working very hard to win the wrong race. So, here are three of the most
common — yet most misleading direct quotation from our literature— of what it means to see your
business take off.
How might we define “misleading success” so, that it neither leaves us with only a handful of
wildly successful start ups, nor lets entrepreneurs delude themselves? Nevertheless, in the poem by
Edwin Arlington Robinson, entitled “Richard Cory.” Richard Cory, “one calm summer night, went
home and put a bullet through his head.;” into thinking they have made it? I would put it this way:
misleading success entrepreneurs turn ideas into non-self-sustaining values.
One criterion here is that the reader gets the misleading success to the point where it produces
consistent non-profitability. The short story, by Anton Paviovich Chekhov,” The Bet”. it mentions, ”It’s
not true! I’ll bet you two million dollars you wouldn’t stay in solitary confinement for five years.” As
if, other criterion is that the misleading success creates an enterprise that can consistently to capture
new groups of customers to replace those that no longer need or want the original deal.;

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himself.
Without, his ability to capture new sets of customers, the deal is on.. Almost half of the surviving
the 2 million dollars would failed to meet this criterion, yet success can be misleading. In the short
story, “The Bet”, “the slightest attempt on his part to break the conditions, if only two minutes before
the end, released the banker from the obligation to pay him two millions dollars.”
In conclusion, those who adopt a misleading definition are at risk of working very hard to win the
wrong race. So, as presented those where the three of the most common — yet most misleading direct
quotation from our literature— of what it means to see your business take off. In all three quotable
usages success is misleading one becomes a successful failure only.