Most people will agree that it is good to be hungry for success.  “Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look/ He thinks too much: such men are dangerous” says Caesar.

But there is the other side of  hunger: famine.  Rarely do people make good decisions in the midst of famine.  Famine is the opposite of freedom.  Famine is the slavery of need.  If you choose to make things out of desperation, it will stink of desperation.

Better to be as Epictetus says: