To say that someone lusts for sex paints a vivid picture. We know quite precisely what that someone wants, craves, hungers for with passion and without cessation. One could say the same about power and money. To lust for either one or the other is to lust for something specific – in the case of money it’s even measurable, quantifiable, though as we use the word “lust,” enough is never enough, no matter how much.

Success is more fungible, more malleable a concept.