Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life

by Bill Perkins

The main idea here is that your life is the sum of your experiences. This just means that everything you do in life—all the daily, weekly, monthly, annual, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences you have—adds up to who you are.

Having money helps you to achieve the more important goal of enjoying your life. But trying to maximize money actually gets in the way of achieving the more important goal. So always keep this end goal in mind. Make “maximize total life enjoyment” your mantra, using it to guide every decision—including

They gave up years of their life while healthy and vibrant to buy a few extra weeks of life when they are sick and immobile. If that’s not irrational, I don’t know what is!

Remember: In the end, the business of life is the acquisition of memories.