Wilbur Smith Quotes

I want to travel the world and enjoy things, so if you gave me $50 million and said, 'You can never perform again,' I probably would take it and be fine with it.

You see, money isn't everything - I know it sounds corny but I really mean it - success means a lot more.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy.

So many people equate money and success with happiness, especially in the music industry.

If I was a businessman, I could have made a huge amount of money. But none of that really crossed my mind while I was young and traveling.

I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing.

I'm retired from the daredevil business.

The best way to make happy money is to make money your hobby and not your god.

I'm going to Malaysia to try and win a million dollars... how exciting is that?

I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

I think money is essential to happiness and right now I wouldn't want to be anyone other than Wilbur Smith - I've had a fantastic life, rewarded far more heavily than I deserve. Maybe I'd like to be J. K. Rowling, but I'll settle for second best.

I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

I'd like to wrestle an alligator and fly a fighter jet.

Money is not it for me. I love to travel and take care of my kids and be around my children.

I'm not here to tell you to take risks and quit your job and travel the world. No, don't do that if it doesn't make you feel comfortable and excited.

You need to be in danger; otherwise, you get old.

When I left Facebook, I left an enormous amount of equity on the table. I thought, 'I don't want to be a slave to money. I want to be a slave to something bigger: an ambition, a goal.'

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

They say, all you need is love. But what is better? Finding love, even if you don't have enough money? Or is money important, even if you don't have time to find love?

I just want to be a part of something exciting, that's all.

When I was young and didn't have money, I liked gambling because winning and losing was fun for the rush of it.

Adventure, yeah. I guess that's what you call it when everybody comes back alive.