As a lifelong practitioner in the financial services industry, money has often been a high priority for me—securing funding for companies, making money for my clients as well as for myself. After all, I’ve raised over a billion U.S. dollars in investment capital. But after losing all my own wealth many years ago due to unscrupulous partners, I’ve come to a different view of it. Of course meeting our basic material needs is important, but beyond that, how do you define wealth?