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

Success: Freedom Over Money 💵

25 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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In this short dialogue, Speaker A asks Sam what success means to him today, prompting a personal reflection. Sam (Speaker B) answers that success is not about accumulating more money but about having the freedom to spend quality time with his wife, children, and family. He emphasizes that while money comes from hard work, it is common and not the ultimate goal; instead, the ability to enjoy time with loved ones and maintain a fair, happy balance in life represents the greatest success for him. The conversation underscores a shift from a money‑centric view of achievement toward a values‑driven definition centered on freedom, relationships, and work‑life balance.

Sam, what does success mean to you today? Whether that's personally, business, financial life, there's no right answer.
Yeah, that's actually simple. For me, success is freedom, actually. So if you can spend free time with your wife, with your kids, with your family, that is actually success for me. Because on some point, you just realize that money is really something that is common with hard work. Yeah. And you don't need more of that, but having the time to spend with the people you are loving, yeah, it's getting less and less. And to have a great and fair split there that everyone is happy is for me the biggest success actually.
Love it. Yeah. So having that freedom to be able to, you know, freedom of time to still not feel like you're losing out on spending time with people you want and doing things you want at the cost of business.
Yeah, definitely.