True friendship would not be affected by any situations or positions

As Friends indeed are Friend all the times

Absolutely no

Yes it is true.

https://www.quora.com/Do-you-start-losing-friends-as-you-become-more-successful-in-life

https://www.quora.com/How-have-your-friends-changed-after-becoming-very-successful

Yes. People tend to lose old friends as they move up on the ladder of success. New friends are made, new connections are made and give up old habit to pave way for their new status.

Not allwayes

Great answer and comments from Dr. K. karthik. Strongly agree with his opinions.

The simple answer is: Yes.

But for a different reason than you expect.

It is not because you are turning into an asshole that doesn't need these people anymore.

It is because you realize that the people you considered "friends" are trying to use you for their own benefit.

And that is not a bad thing!!

I am not knocking anyone with this.

All I am saying is that you outgrow the need to have that in your life.

You outgrow them.

That is all.

And then you will find different friends that are on your level, that do not need you to solve anything for them.

These people will be your real friends because they will push you to be your greatest and test your limits instead of trying to keep you on their level.

So in a sense, you lose friends, but you also gain more friends.

It is a give and take.

And overall: It is a much better trade-off than you can imagine!

True friends stays and felicitate when there is success while those who are spies get disappointed and disappears.

Prof. Shibabrata Pattanayak , from some perspectives, it is true..in other way, some friends never change and stay close forever.

Mostly 95% cases it is Yes but it varies with individual. The profile of a person, protocols and circumstances also responsible for alienation. Still if anyone feels to meet or call their friends nobody restrict them only the public meetings will not be possible as case of celebrities.

Yes it is true. You have to leave behind you all friends who tend to pull you back

I agree with Borden Mushonga

True friends usually become happy with the success of ours and wish us happiness from their heart as if this success is their success .... and unfortunately most of others did not share this happiness and even may become unhappy for that .....those are never friends...you were deceived that they are friends.

The answer is yes and reasons may be so many.one reason may be ego problem. Secondly, the successful person gets little time for old friends.

Depend on type of your friend If they are the kind that gives you up in the moments of your success for some reason, jealousy or envy then if they leave your life would be a profit rather than a loss

Not always.

Real test of friendship happens only when one friend starts achieving success or another friend faces failure. However, friendship with mutual respect, admiration, honesty and integrity without selfish motive last longer.

You can't generalize. If a friend become a University President or CEO of a major company, they will have limited time for friends and even family. Over the years, I had experienced such development but many of my friendships didn't suffer because we maintained healthy relationships where some of my friends sough guidance and support.

Nothing separates friends if they are true friends, only the distance and migration after the wars

Hello,

No, definitely. Because it is depend on the behavior of each person. Generally, most of the successful persons in all the world have many friends!

Thanks,

Unfortunately, it is true. I don’t know why but they are decreasing !

Not always, depending on your attitude and humility with those around you, it may bring you more friends or enemies as well as enemies of success

I do not think so.

If a person is really successful, he will not lose one of his true friends.

Successful person always keeps good number of friends and relations along with up lift in life.

I slightly disagree with this, in fact successful person will have a lot friends, but they are so busy and focused in keeping their work aligned they they hardly get time to spend with friends like a normal person. but i am sure they will not lose friends .infact all of their friends would like to keep up .

Sometimes yes.

In general cases yes, but for real friendship each of the two friends can be a catalyst for another to succeed as well as they can be of the same specialization to form a successful team work.

Yes is true, your success is your level and not theirs. Sometimes jealousy and envy set in. No matter how humble you may be due to your present status, they may still want to think for you. When you correct them or even suggest the right order, they will input motive and associate your experience and exposure to your status. But true friendship is real while some are fake and tired of pretending that they are your friends. This class of friends larger numbers and they usually isolate themselves from you.

I think the matter of losing friends is associated with choosing the right quality friends for lifestyle, so when a person does not improve his friends choose will be exposed to their loss, and vice versa

regards

I do not want to justify the statement, but I give the real truth. All people in this world are focusing on their works more than looking at a friendship due to a pressure of life, which has increasingly limited the social relationships among people.

Furthermore, it is hard to find a pure friend nowadays . In a psychology , the real friend who stands up for you in the most difficult circumstances and never let you down what so ever the outcomes are.

Besides, the true friend also can encourage you to see the life wonderful and unfortunately, all these points are non-available these days compelling some people to take a step back and rethinking once again.

Regards

may be

It may be so. Because with the increase in success, the busy of the people becomes large.

With the best wishes

Mr Rezaei Ahvanooei.

Friendship means in thick and thin , if success fades it then good-riddens !!!

Success should not change our attitude and if it does then we lose friends , I guess it depends what is important to me???

Success at every cost OR friends for life (if it is true) !?!

It depends. Loyal friends stand together in success and in failure.

Most often, yes.

True friendship would not be affected by any situations or positions

As Friends indeed are Friend all the times

I have gone through most of the answers.

The answer to this question depends upon how we define friendship.

If by definition every Tom, Dick and Harry around us or I interact with, is my friend, then it is some what likely that such friendship will fade away with my success.

I like the expression used by Satya Murthy earlier and echoing the same I write that true Friendship means in thick and thin. Such a friendship should not and will not change with change in any parameter you consider.

Achieving success requires efforts and time, so one may be very busy and will not have enough time for freinds. On other hand envy and jealosy may affect the relationship of a successful person with his/her freinds. But as my dearist freind Dr. Lamia said ; true freinds are freinds all the times.

Successful people lose false friends (Jealous / hateful / against success ...) with an increase in success - That's 10000% true.

mostly true. Many people who failed to bring his or her dreams true, psychologically they will have signs of desperation, jealousy and revenge particularly when they start to compare themselves with you. On other side,you find nice people standing for you in small and big isues.

In general it happens. But it can be avoided by having mutual respect, honesty and integrity between the friends.

In my opinion, yes. As our success increases, we lose some of our so called friends because they were jealous of our progress and success. They wished that it was them instead of us. However, true friend will never leave our side no matter what.

Hello,

I would like to quote Bette Midler here: " The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. "

With success comes jealousy. Jealousy is a disease. A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about what they already have!

So, yes, successful people have less or no best friends at all.

Regards,

Depending on the loyalist.successfully friend forgotten about past records and he/she is thinking about their status so that they will lost best friends. Successful friend's attitudes changed.

There are two ways to this. Friendship is a relationship between two people.

The successful party has a duty to maintain an effort in preserving the relationship and the other party has the responsibility to understand that success comes with more demands on ones time. Friendships require work to maintain.

If either party fails at this, it doesn't matter if one is more successful than the other, that relationship is bound to fail.

There are two ways to this. Friendship is a relationship between two people.

The successful party has a duty to maintain an effort in preserving the relationship and the other party has the responsibility to understand that success comes with more demands on ones time. Friendships require work to maintain.

If either party fails at this, it doesn't matter if one is more successful than the other, that relationship is bound to fail.

At the same time if two people who are colleagues are our friends then it means that they are friends because of the informal relations within the organisation - maybe same department, same levels, same field ..... But when a person moves up the ladder then his informal organisations also changes and the person may evolve in that setting.

I don't see the friendships losing out because of these informal relations which are ever evolving even with the organisation.

At the same time if two people are real friends they understand each other's positions and evolve accordingly - they are there for each other yet not having friendship as before.

This is hoe I understand friendships in an organisation!

Perhaps yes but such persons cant be given the pious title "friends".This envious feeling is seen in relatives also

Your success is the best tool to verify the friendship.

We get to know our real friends if they can enjoy our success with us and support us in good times.

You are right that in those moments of my life, when I succeeded, not all my friends turned out to be valuable real friends.

Usually as one goes higher and higher up the ladder the friends standing below appears smaller and smaller. This situation, however, cannot be generalised.

No , not at all..

I do not agree in this. How do you define successful? Having more money is a successful or becoming higher in political rank? But, what happens if you go ahead in your field, some other friends may feel inferior, so never forget them.

Agree with Wajid Zaman

A agree with Dr. Wajid Zaman

There is a known expression about friends - one said: "To be my friend, do not go beyond me, and do not go in front of me Just go nearby me." It doesn't look nice, but in many life confirmed cases, it is exactly what is happening - a friendship is requiring equal ones - otherwise, it cools down, or crucks, or breaks.

Friendship between two persons (even probably for any two living beings)is a bidirectional process. If a more successful people is to be compared with a less or unsuccessful one in terms of fulfilling all required conditions to maintain friendship between each other.......then both have equal responsibility to maintain that. If the so called successful people forgets to look 'down' or fails to held the hand of his/her less or unsuccessful counterpart with the same warmth as before.....then he/she will definitely lose his/her friend.

The reverse is also obviously true with the same logic.

yes, i totally agree with your statement. in an unethical , selfish relationship, friends cannot bear your higher achievements and try to lower your status instead of raising theirs. you have to try to improve the relationship. but, the gap is the barrier. you should stand alone because they cannot keep up with u.

Successful people do not have to lose friends. It depends on the way they have become successful.

Agree with Dr Homnath & Dr Mladen

Yes, i totally agree with your statement .

Unfortunately, yes, some friends are jealous of the success of their friends. This is one of the suffering of a successful person...and this bitter truth exists really.I hope my opinion is the opposite but this reality