You've lost again and again and again, the lights are cut off
but you're still looking at your dream
reviewing it every day and say to yourself, it's not over until I win.
If you wanna make your dream become reality
the people that are running at their dreams know that it's possible that you can live your dream
that's it's necessary that you're relentless, that you have a plan of action, that you are creative.
The people that are living their dream of finding winners to attach themselves to
the people that are living their dreams are the people that know, that it's
if it's going to happen it's up to them
and they're resolving within themselves, it's not over until I win
Listen to me very closely, winners win
and losers lose.
And there are those of you out there, you lose it, and you don't deserve to lose
you put in the work, you worked hard and you lose it
and I mean you do me a favor
this is a year to turn that around
The people that are running after their dream
know they're gonna have hard times, they keep on running
because they're saying within themselves
I'm the one, I'm the one, no matter how bad it is or how bad it gets, I'm going to make it.
The people that are running after their dreams are the people that are hungry.
Listen to me very closely
some of you are broke
listen to me, you flat-out broke
right! you ain't got gas money
and we're not just talking about money
you've broken your relationships, you've broken your health
and you're not broke because you have to be
right! and I'm telling your whole life is gonna change
If you would, if you would get off the couch, not playing video games
When other folks are having a good time, you've got to have the strength of character
to concentrate, to read, to digest information.
You've got to learn how to become resourceful
You've got to learn how to become creative.
like for real, you're broken, you're broke, you're broke
stop complaining, stop going to a job you don't like, you are broke
listen to me you going to a job you don't like, you been there for 15, 20 years, and I ain't tripping on the job
I'm not even saying you should quit the job
but I'm saying that after you get off work
just like you invested in them, you need to invest in yourself
And the problem is simple, you're not investing in your idea
that you're always looking for a way to get over
always looking for a way that you can break through
and always looking for a way that you can strike a telling blow
and your broke because you not getting the I
you do not understand the I, I told you last week
it is about an invention and idea
And I've got to separate what I do from who I am.
Listen to me, you ain't got, your phone getting cut off, only
listen to me you are broke
You've got to make it your personal business to make it happen
and you've got to resolve within yourself, that I can do this, that it's hard
but you've got to say “I'm the one”
I'm the one to make this happen, I'm the one to become successful in this business.
As you work to help other people to become successful, that feeds your success.
That if you want a thing bad enough to go out and fight for it
to work day and night for it
to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it.
If all that you dream and scheme is about it
and life seems useless and worthless without it
and if you gladly sweat for it and fret for it and plan for it
and lose all your terror of the opposition for it
and if you simply go after that thing that you want with all of your capacity
strength and sagacity, faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity
if neither cold, poverty, famine nor gout, sickness or pain of body and brain
can keep you away from the thing that you want
if dogged and grim you beseech and beset it with the help of God you'll get it.
It's not over until I win
I asked him and said "how are you able in spite of all thet negative publicity saying that you couldn't win?"
"How, how did you do it?"
He said "I ignored my critics, I just didn't pay any attention to them, I ignored myself"
because they kept on saying it so much
there were times I doubted whether or not I can do what I needed to do
see, the last chapter to your life has not been written yet
and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday
It doesn't matter about the things that you've done, that you feel guilty about
if you wouldn't do it today, you're convicting an innocent person
So I really want to be a certain kind of person
and I get a massive amount of chemical joy
for being the kind of person I want to be
acting in order to that, being tough, doing the work, grinding it out
pushing forward, having a goal, going after it, developing myself, being the learner
like seeing how much potential I can actually wring out of myself
because this is what I do
because, because of that neurochemical rush that I get every time
where, and don't let Jayce hear this, but like when I'm up and I'm working at 4:00 a.m.
and I know all my employees are sleeping, all my competitors are sleeping
and I'm grinding it out
and when I got up at 4 a.m and I was working my hats off
because you're wasting your life
If you do all of that for something that you don't care about and this is where it gets terrifying.
You've gotta be excited about the future that you're building
that is the key, you've got to be really amped up about it
it's got to give you energy, when you think about doing that thing
it's got a really amp you up, and if it doesn't then dear God, what are you doing?
There's no moral obligation to go hard and live your life like I live mine
but man let me tell you right now, if you're not doing things that excite you
if there's nothing in your life that you've built into this incredible empire of excitement
you are really missing out
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality
The disproportional reason so many people in here will not win
let's just get right to the chase
the disproportionate reason that most people in this room will not win
is actually not the hard work
-which is what I'm going to talk about probably for the next 45 minutes-
It's your lack of patience
I think there's literally 300 million different ways to win in the U.S.
There is no blueprint, there is no exact way
it only comes down to being able to factor in the 40 or 50 indexes
input points, context points around your life
and then navigating through that
and so what, what I really want is for people to understand
don't do it like me, don't do it like you, don't do it like Zucks, don't do it like Trav, don't do it like Cuban
and the lack of patience is what hurts so many people.
If you decide in any particular area that you’re concerned about
to make a conscious deliberate determined effort to read one book a month in that area
in five years you'll be among the top 5% experts in the world.
I read a minimum of two books a week
the average american reads only one book a year.
If you decide that area that you love
that you are going to master that particular area in this era
of accelerated change, overwhelming complexity and tremendous competition
As you begin to develop and expand your skills and your talents and your vision of yourself
you will always be in control of your destiny.
And I'm saying to them “you can live your dream”
It was hard ladies and gentlemen
it was very difficult to pick myself up each day believing that I can do it
there were times that I doubted myself
I said "God, why? why is this happening to me?"
I'm just trying to take care of my children and my mother
I'm not trying to steal or rob from anybody
How did this have to happen to me?
it was very hard
and here's what I want to say to you
For those of you that have experienced some hardships
don't give up on your dream
No one could have convinced me by holding on
by continuing to push forward, by continuing to run toward my dream
that one day I would have my own talk show.
It's a long shot ladies and gentlemen from Liberty City and an abandoned building on the floor
never knowing my mother or father, It's a long shot.
Being here with you today in this dome in Atlanta, it’s a long shot
no college training, labeled ineducable, mentally retarded, but I kept running toward my dream.
you've lost again and again and again, the lights are cut off
but you're still looking at your dream
reviewing it every day and saying to yourself "IT'S NOT OVER UNTIL I WIN.”