Success

My English paper I'm currently writing is about success. We basically have to define success and prove/disprove that society is obsessed with success. Looking for inspiration, I asked my friends what success means to them. One of them told me, "Success is the absence of failure." Good answer, but I don't think that what I should define success as in my paper. I got bored an Wiki-ed success and sure enough, it said success is the absence of failure! haha. I also looked up success on UrbanDictionary and this came up. I think this'll be going in my paper...