Bob Dylan On Money And Success

"The moral flabbiness born of the exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success. That - with the squalid cash interpretation put on the word 'success' - is our national disease." 
William James (from the renowned James family of Boston) remains one of America's most insightful thinkers. 
His book, The Varieties of Religious Experience, was (and is) a milestone in comparative religion. 

William James 
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James

William James Quotations
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/15865.William_James

William James 
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https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_James

In A Hyper-Productive Society, Hollow Success Is Seductive, Often Inescapably So

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2015/12/in-hyper-productive-society-hollow.html