good fighters are not necessarily the greatest fighter that ever lives it's what
where you want to go a good fighter just has to be diligent and committed and
disciplined doing what you hate to do but do it like you love it
you know always testing yourself forcing yourself to the limits you know if
you know you um like if you love women then deny yourself that you know
that's what success in general is all about sacrifice from my
experience of any little success I may have had it's being willing to
sacrifice you know unfortunately sometimes you can't have fun
accomplishing your goals and when sometimes people don't have the
determination the will and the steadfastness the tenacity they
they give in under the slightest struggle many of you already have dealt with some very
difficult times so this is no different than some of you already dealt with when
you fail it's okay to get depressed it's okay to cry it's okay to go home it's
okay to blame others for a while but eventually you have to get over it and
move on the greatest people have ever walked this planet and if I'm talking
I'm not talking business people I'm talking about people like Nelson Mandela
and Abe Lincoln constantly had setbacks in life and failures constantly it happens
all the time in business and some of your success would be how you deal with
the failure not how you deal with the success when I get introduced I always
get introduced that 1998 I was the president of Citigroup and in 2000 I
took over Bank 1 I was fired in 1998 so I went a little bit of experience like
this and and it's a painful thing my boss who I has worked for 15 years called me
in and said we want you to resign which I said ok I went home I told my wife and
children I called my wife up and said Judy I'm gonna tell you something I'm
not kidding because I always make jokes about things like that
but I wanted to make sure the kids were fine I went home my three wonderful
daughters they were much younger than I said the youngest one said dad
do we have to sleep on the streets I said no hun we're okay
the middle one who just graduated Barnard said dad can I still go to
college I said yes dear you can and I knew things
were fine when the oldest one who's going to Harvard Business School said dad
can I have that little cell phone you have you won't be needing it I remind people when
you fail at something that's your I told you about Citigroup is my net worth not
my self-worth and I was able to move on and yes it was difficult I did call my
boss a year later he did not call me I called him and said it's time to break
bread we went to lunch together I told him that I don't think that he did the right
thing for Citigroup which is pretty obvious at this point but but I told him
the mistakes I made and was 40 60 or 60 40 wasn't important I wanted to learn
from the experience and move on you are enough to be who you want to be and to
create what you want to create you have to make sure that beyond the intention
that you put out there you put action to support the intention
don't say I want to be a millionaire but don't take the activities to do it or I
want to be the best at something but don't practice it it's important to
understand that you are enough pieces you know you know put in the vision have
the vision of what you want to become but you have to put consistent action
behind that vision in order for that to manifest and it has to be consistent you
know I have the good fortune bill was invited here by one of my fraternity
brothers Louie Tobias and I remember many a day Louie and I Friday night
we're going to go to the party and we went to the party and we finished the
party at 2:30 and three o'clock we were back studying so that we could do well
on an exam on Monday it is the importance of knowing that it's your own
intention and your power and your actions that can actually lead to you
know the outcome that is good that you want to have manifest the notion that we
are not enough is a lie and I think more young people need to know that that like
when you have that thought that you're not enough that that's based on a lie
that somebody said to you or a lie that somebody did to you like somebody
said or did something to you to make you feel like you're not enough and that's
not true that you are everything that you need to be that you have everything
that you need to have to be the person that you're meant to be and to be the
best version of who you're meant to be it may mean that you have to work really
hard and it may mean that you have to ask for help
but you are perfectly blessed you know you are exactly who you're supposed to
be to be joyful in this life so don't be afraid to work hard and don't be afraid
to ask for help so you can get there because that's your truth I think that's
what's uh what are the biggest lesson that I've learned in the last
three-and-a-half months is just a good life lesson and I'm not trying to sound
corny or anything but these things happen to you and you think you've been
dealt a terrible hand you've had bad luck and when you just go with it
there's a you just start improvising suddenly you realize that you stumble
upon some of the best things that have ever happened to you and so the last
three and a half months have been the most interesting time in my entire
career and I wouldn't have traded this for anything in the world and so three
and a half months ago what looked to everybody like bad luck has become
amazingly good luck and I think that is a lot of what were what relates to
everybody here you're a lot of you who are in your 20s and you take for granted
that well this is what the way the world is right now but from my perspective
it's changed dramatically in just seven years and I don't even know where we're
gonna be five years from now we can forget the reason we started in
the first place and we can get completely overcome with all of the
issues and the problems that we have so before you start or at the very early
stages of your journeys think to yourselves why am i doing this what is
my motivation and write yourself a letter because in those tough and hard
times when we've all had them we've all think I cannot believe I've got myself
into it that is the letter you need to get out and you need to remember and
also you need to remember in the times when your customers are looking at you
in a very confused way saying I don't recognize you anymore you're not what
you told me you were you need to get that letter out again and you need to
see the promises you've made yourself and you need to see the promises you've
made to your letter oh to your letter to your
customers role models are really really important I could name you a lot of
people that I meet every day and some of them are people I'm invested in some of
the people I've worked alongside with you wouldn't know any of them because
when I walk through life nobody I what I've realized is nobody has it all and
when we look at role models we tend to think that's it that's the person I want
to be trust me however many times Evan's says I'm the
expert in everything I'm not nobody has it all but what I do realize that people
in life that I meet do something extraordinary and I think that was
brilliant that was fantastic and I pick up that
information I put it in my toolbox and when I need it I'll remember I'll go
back to them and I think that was brilliant
so my role models don't have names they have moments and experiences and there
are people who I could just roll off and you think as you're talking about and
that's my tip to you don't look for that in one person that you can say that's
who I want to be look across the range and think that's the moment that's the
person that's the person I want I remember that I remember how they dealt
with that you got guys that are solid you got guys that are good you got guys that are great and
it's the same thing like in athletics
it's a difference between a good player and a great player you know a great
player makes those better around him you know great player somebody who's
incredibly has a god-given talent but also a unnaturally consistent work ethic
when those two things meet that's when you get
when you get greatest most people say you have to be
at the right place at the right time I always say no you have to be everywhere
all the time because your visibility is just as important as your ability so I
think you have to show up and I find a lot of times even personally people are
just not showing up anymore you can't win if you don't play so we have to show up
for example right now I find that people aren't showing up for their
opportunities you know people believe that opportunity knocks you know once or
twice or annually I would say opportunity never knocks it's something
you have to go after with the vengeance living in Las Vegas I even give credit
to people who you know hit the jackpot there because at least they showed up
and put that dollar into the machine for a chance so I think you have to give
yourself a chance and show up in your relationship show up on your job
show up in life
they don't wanna lift those weights
it's like going into the gym every day
you know how you walk in every day and you go oh jeez I've gotta do this again
a lot of guys don't wanna do it
it's brutal, it sounds like a tortured life
and you said it's not it is it is but you know what your blessing in life is when you find
the torture you're comfortable with
wait a second you have stated you would like to be
you want to go wait a minute is that too rough
that was pretty profound well that's the torture you're that's life
and that's marriage, it's kids, it's work, it's exercise, it's not eating the food you wanna eat
find the torture you're comfortable with and you'll do well I can't argue with that because even radio
I don't, it's torture for me of course it is
but yet I have to do it
it's no difference than when you're 30 minutes into your workout you're okay right
like you're okay now you don't wanna get your ass out of bed you don't wanna
sit in the awful chair again but once you get going and that's life
you've mastered that you've mastered life
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