Intellectual Freedom Through Financial Independence

“The beauty is that whatever is left is mine to spend as I like. That has freed me up to do the crazy things I do. And spending millions on sculptures on some paddocks in the Kaipara is aberrant behaviour from an economic point of view, the money is written off and gone, like buying an ice-cream, there’s no way I could recoup it by selling The Farm. That seems to upset some of my contemporaries, but to me it is the essence of freedom.”

“After I got over trying to find the purpose of life and realised that being a hippy was too boring, I concluded the best I could do is to keep stimulated and interested, and that’s not about money. It’s about reading, travelling and having a few challenges; you don’t need a lot of money to do that. Freedom is an attitude of mind.”