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I have no freakin idea who the most successful 100 people in history were. I'd tend to guess that I have never heard of any of them.
Then you must not be measuring success by absolute wealth. How are you measuring it?
Even if you want to measure success by money, absolute wealth is not a good measure because of inheritance. Four of the 10 richest americans are survivors of Sam Walton.
Accomplishing their goals of course. Why on Earth would you use absolute wealth?
Anyway, you can't translate well between different times and situations.
Finally, really large amounts of wealth aren't even well defined, partly because large assets aren't liquid and partly because the largest assets are frequently unofficial political power.
I was not recommending that.
If two agents have different goals, I don't see how to say which has accomplished its goal "more" than the other.