Goodness and success

does goodness really lead to success?

being good is like helping others, having compassion, empathy, being truthful, and ultimately maintaining a good relationship with oneself and with others.  We have to understand the highest quality of being good is at the level of humanity. Then comes our other identities for example good with society(family, friends, relatives) or good with the country(patriotism) or with nature etc. we know many who are patriotic but not good in dealing with her family like Governor of Puducherry.
Kabir was good with humanity but bat at society.

Being successful is like gaining wealth, knowledge, power and being able to help others. Ambani and Modi can be good examples.

I consider that success is a function of hard work, perseverance, practice and the like.
for example there are many politicians who are not following practices of being a good person, still, they are successful.

But being good is not enough for success, for example, Ram could defeat Ravan not because he was good but because he was able and have capabilities.

So what is the use of being good? For example, in a badminton court, I know two players. One of them always share his secrets with newcomers and other may even refuse to play with not so better players.
why does one help others -- there can be many reasons like
1. is it because of reciprocity but we must not demean goodness with such a meaningless purpose. Also, there are many who have compassion for unknown.
2.  fear of God, as religion teaches us to be good and kind for others but religion has caused pogroms.
3.  habit of being good, for example, once developed the habit of respecting elders. Advising in family matters.
4. We are human and we had it naturally like love and empathy. Also, these human-like characters make us feel good. Yes, happiness can be a reason for being good but still, we are animals and animal-like feelings also please us so why not to be bad.

But being good is not enough and good people are in the jail or babysitting for bad people. far away from success.

I consider goodness like the handle of a cycle and success is like moving forward.
Further, we know that we can manoeuvre our cycle with help of handle but the more important purpose of the cycle is moving forward and going somewhere.

But lastly, being good is just another plane which may or may not coincides with success. This leaves us open to be good at any point of time i.e. after or before success.