THE GREATEST BUSINESS ADVICE | MOTIVATIONAL VIDEO
when you had that third failure in a row
did you think I need to pack this in
never
why not I don’t ever give up I mean I’d
have to be dead or living faster people
say you have to have a lot of passion
for what you’re doing and it’s totally
true and the reason is is because it’s
so hard that if you don’t any rational
person would give up it’s really hard
and you have to do it over a sustained
period of time so if you don’t love it
if you’re not having fun doing it you
don’t really love it you’re going to
give up if you think you’re going to be
a lot happier if you’ve got to X instead
of X you’re probably making a mistake I
mean it yeah you ought to find something
you like that’s that works with that and
it and you’ll get in trouble if you
think that making 10 X or 20 X is the
answered everything in life because then
you will do things like borrow money
ones you shouldn’t or or maybe you cut
corners on things that your boy wants
you to cut corners honor it just doesn’t
make any sense you won’t like it when
you look back on it half if you’re going
to start a company it takes so much
energy that you it better overcome your
your feeling of the risk you’re going to
run across a lot of rejection I say this
time in and time out be prepared for the
rejection no matter how bad it is
don’t let it overcome you or influence
you keep on going towards what you want
to do no matter what no matter whether
your bills are paid not a someone says
no a thousand times again go back to be
enthusiastic on door number 100 as you
were on door number one you know I had
to convince myself that I’m gonna make
it you know regardless of how people
felt at that time and but what it does
is it makes you feel like what made me
feel like there’s going to be points
that people don’t mistake my confidence
for arrogance because I’ve had to they
don’t understand the process I went
there and how much I had to believe in
myself in order to make these things
happen I kind of I felt like you can
will yourself until this space
things that are meant to happen will as
you’re believing yourself enough you can
help yourself learn most people think
well I’ll be successful if the economy
works I’ll be successful if something
happens I’ll be successful if I win the
lottery ticket look you’re not going to
be successful if you don’t demand it if
you literally don’t stake a claim to say
this is mine it’s in part you’re not
gonna have it I promise you
I know I’m telling you from experience I
spent the first 25 years of my life like
like a spectator watching other people
get successful and then wondering why
wasn’t success is your duty it is your
obligation and your responsibility never
ever give up you can change and you can
move around but never ever give up I
know people that are very smart they
went to the Wharton School of Finance
with me I know other people that aren’t
as smart and those people are the top
people in industry today at the top they
just were tougher they didn’t give up
and the smart ones had everything on
their plate that always come in with the
A+ on the tests and the good boards and
everything else but when they ran into
problems they didn’t how to solve the
problems like the guys that were asked
and it’s very seldom that you see
something other than this happen so
never ever give up I feel so strongly
that the reason I’m here is I dream big
dreams I dream the kind of dreams that
other people said would not be possible
I’m also living proof this is in a
Hollywood movie I come literally from
the other side of the tracks if you saw
where I grew up and we took a picture of
it the neighborhood the setting you say
it’s not it’s impossible that someone
could come from there and get here but
it is possible I think being a business
owner is the hardest thing to do in this
country they take your money hopefully
not your mother’s mother but you take
your money and you invest in an idea
which is essentially investing in
yourself but if you do it solely to make
money you’re going to lose and you
really have to do it and I know that a
lot of people out there get up every
morning in the household right and
they’re driving in the car
yeah and I would encourage them just to
stick to the grind if you don’t believe
in yourself if you don’t believe that
you can overcome obstacles if you don’t
believe you have the work ethic if you
don’t believe you have the inner
confidence to project to other people
it’ll never happen to project yourself
to age 80 and then think back over your
life and if you’re if you’re if you’re
81 or this you want to minimize the
number of regrets you have throughout
that period of time I’m not going to sit
inside of a corporation for 20 years the
time is now the time is now to express
and for people to believe in themselves
the time is now for it to be okay to be
great
