Akeel JabberInvestment Director, Horizen Capital · Investor, Entrepreneur and Petroleum Engineer

Redefining Success: Beyond Money

10 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief interview segment, the host (Speaker A) asks David to articulate his current understanding of success, inviting reflections on personal, business, financial, and life dimensions. David responds by proposing to read a well‑known quote that encapsulates a broader, values‑based definition of success, indicating a shift away from purely monetary measures toward meaning, relationships, and impact. The exchange sets up a conversation about redefining success beyond traditional financial metrics.

David, what does success mean to you today? Whether that's personally, business, financial, life, I guess there's no right answer, but at this stage of your life, what does that mean?
That's a great question. Can I, do I have time to read you a quote of what success is? Let's hear it.
Yeah.
Okay. I'm looking it up. So I'm going to fill here a little bit of what we do because I get asked this question a lot and this is not my quote. This is from somebody else. What is success? To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to learn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate the beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by healthy child, a garden patch, or redeemed social condition, to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.