Ruzwana Bashir Quotes

Purchased experiences don't count.

There comes a time when money doesn't matter.

To me, wealth is the peace of mind you have, your family, your friends, your colleagues. Everything else is just money, and it really is funny how people pay so much attention to that.

I'm not looking at money, percentage points or grosses. This is my life, you know? To me, every day matters.

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you.

Wish not so much to live long as to live well.

I think, before I had money, I believed that money would solve my problems, that it would give me power and I wouldn't have financial stress anymore, and it would completely change my life. And then, when I had money, it changed a lot of things, but it didn't change the way I felt inside at all.

I don't want my life to be about a house and a car.

Your trade becomes very much impacted by the quality of your life experiences and your capacity to process them.

A successful life depends less on how long you live than on how much you can pack into the time you have.

There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life.

One of the things I think we need to emphasize to all young people, whether rich or poor, is the fact that while everyone needs to be able to provide themselves with a decent standard of living, lacking certain other qualifications in themselves, the money which makes such a standard possible will not give them a happy life.

Obviously, there were ways to have made a lot more money and to have had more leisure. But I wouldn't choose that. I feel rich in ways that are unique and that I would never trade for tens of millions of dollars in the bank.

I had always wanted to belong, and I had been thinking that this was going to get solved when I had money, and instead, I had no idea how I wanted to live my life. And no one teaches you what to do after you achieve financial independence. So I had to confront that.

That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

I've been rich; I've been poor. I've been successful; I've been decimated. And the way I felt inside didn't change dramatically. It's less stressful to have money, that's for sure. But that doesn't mean I felt fulfilled. So I've learned to live in the smaller moments of life.

I can buy anything I want now. It hasn't changed me personally. It just changed what I can do for myself and my family.

This is the only life I'm ever going to have, so shouldn't I at least try to be happy?

Money doesn't make you happy - I know people in the U.K. with money, they never seem to be happy.

I love Alain de Botton and listen to his little 'School of Life' YouTube vids as I do the dishes.

Personally, I believe people who have a lots of memories are people who are living with zest.

I haven't really had much to do with my life. All I've done is take part in it.

We don't just want to eradicate illness. We want people to achieve their full potential.

If your outer life is really a reflection of the quality of your inner life, then it's a brilliant move to spend at least an hour a day working on yourself.