J.D. Rockefeller? Andrew Carnegie? (Incidentally, did you know that Hitler and Charlie Chaplin were both born in 1889?)

In considering the question, it occurs to me that it's important to define "failure". For instance, if not failing means that you make someone happy while still not being happy yourself, have you failed or not? If I knew I'd be happy with it, I'd get married again, but if the man I married was happy with the situation and I was not, wouldn't I have to consider that I had failed? And vice versa.

See, that's how my mind works- I would love to find the formula for ensuring that all people live in peace and prosperity but I'm pretty sure I can't.