Richard Canfield argues that wealth isn't about accumulating cash but buying freedom: time, purpose, relationships, and liquidity. Real wealth is legacy and the ability to choose how you spend your days, not the money itself.
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But talk to us about that. What does money do? It helps you achieve freedom of time, purpose, relationship, and having cash. Confidence addresses the one thing that I believe can't be measured, which is stress. You've heard the expression money can't buy happiness. All three of us have heard that. A broke can't buy you anything. It's legacy over money. People think that wealth is money, and it's not. Wealth is the freedom of time and purpose and relationship, being able to do the things with your family that bring you joy and that fascinate, and that's what's most important. Everything begins and ends with family. Richard and I and our teammates are blessed to talk to every day. They're not in that situation. They're in a situation where they're doing all the work. Everyone else is getting all their money.