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  • don't ever let somebody tell you.

  • You can't do something.

  • Not even may.

  • You gotta dream.

  • You gotta protective.

  • People can't do something themselves.

  • They wanna tell you you can't do it.

  • You want something?

  • Go get it, Period E.

  • I've heard the word impossible my entire life I never, ever listen to the naysayers I eliminated.

  • The world's impossible for my vocabulary.

  • So when people say that it can't be done I did it because I can tell you the bottom line is that all of you should take the world.

  • No.

  • And it's impossible and can be done out of your vocabulary.

  • You know, there are American heroes who don't like this idea.

  • And I wonder what you think of that.

  • E was very sad to see that because those guys are Yeah, those guys Here's a mind.

  • So it's really tough.

  • I wish they would come and visit on DSI the hardware that would during camp.

  • And I think that would change their mind.

  • 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 that are completely incapacitated.

  • Never, ever take no for an answer as I've never taken no for an answer.

  • A lot of it has to do with me being gay because, you know, I have been everybody just like I think when you think of me being someone had said that was a force of nature, how do you get movies made?

  • And how do you just if they're impossibilities?

  • And that was because I was told that, you know, I wasn't on that.

  • I would be nothing.

  • So I have nothing to lose.

  • You know what I mean?

  • So I think that taking no for an answer is absolutely not accepted ever.

  • I'm at a high school teacher who one day changed my life.

  • I was waiting on another student, and when he came in, he said to me, Young man, go to the board and write what I'm about to tell you and I said, I can't do that turn He said, Why not?

  • I said, I'm not one of your students.

  • He said, It doesn't matter.

  • Follow my directions now is that can't do that, sir, he said.

  • Why not?

  • I said, because I'm imaginable, mentally retarded.

  • On he came from behind his desk and he looked at me, he said.

  • Don't ever say that again.

  • Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

  • I refused to take no for an answer, So if I'm told no, you know, when I was told you can't have a baby or you'll never be able to do that I don't let that in which I find very useful.

  • I do letting criticism, but only if it's useful.

  • Andi.

  • So I said, That's probably my best attitudes.

  • I just won't take no for an answer when people start on you and doubt you, I am tired of people not starting and living their life on one very simple thing, which is they're worried about what other people think, whether that's their mom, their friends and, worst of all, comments in social media.

  • I mean, this is some sixth grade lunchroom.

  • Are you really, really, really not gonna live your life based on somebody's anonymous on icon?

  • Feedback that you suck, they can suck.

  • There's three trash.

  • That's why we confound a dumpster.

  • It's enough you've lived your whole life this way.

  • It doesn't matter what they think When you're in 92 when you're sitting there, you're not gonna give a about what punk man 96 had to say, or even what your aunt had to say.

  • Who's miserable because she never got hers.

  • So she's trying to keep you down.

  • So very simply, please take the passion that is pouring out of my fucking face right now and run with it and go do something.

  • If you need a little burst, here it is.

  • Go do something because the only thing that's holding you back is you're worried about what other people have to say.

  • You give up on that and you're clean and you can go.

  • And all of a sudden it's not how much money you have or how much time you have.

  • You just see that you could do it.

  • Money ain't Time h of holding you back Compared to your worry about other people's opinions, leave in high school, it's time to come with success.

  • In life comes more haters don't make him hurt your feelings.

  • Using for fuel using for energy in times of need, put him on the mental roller, Dex in your mind, and we don't want to do roll through your brain, plump that motherfucker that you need.

  • That person said.

  • You couldn't do something, weren't fast enough, Good enough, smart enough where they can maybe use it for energy instead of killing them with kindness, torture of success in life.

  • We have to continue pushing past the odds.

  • Use everything this world has to give you for fuel against me going.

  • And that's what that's what motivates me.

  • They all tell me they try to laugh on everything to try and mock me.

  • It's been happening the whole career, so it's just something that motivates me to keep going and conquering.

  • The unconquerable showed up.

  • Anything is possible.

  • Actually had 20 introductions to investors throughout Silicon Valley.

  • 10 of those people replied their email.

  • Five of them met us for coffee.

  • Zero invested in Airbnb and talk about a tough time.

  • You've got some of the smartest people in the world.

  • They picked some of the with most well known companies that we all love used today from Google's peoples and YouTube's.

  • And here they are telling us that our idea is crazy, that it's not gonna scale, that people aren't gonna stay in people's homes around the world.

  • Kind of the world thought we were crazy for any entrepreneur out there like you can't take no for an answer.

  • You know, we had really smart, credible people telling us no.

  • Well, the biggest struggle man was just getting around.

  • Other people that would say I could do it.

  • I mean, that's the biggest struggle.

  • Just you get around.

  • One guy says, Yeah, you could do it And then you talk to him tomorrow and he's like, No, dude, you can t o You know, there's so few people telling you to do it.

  • You know what?

  • There is a lot of Save your money, protect yourself, conserved, don't spend don't take risk.

  • Taking risk is the new way to be risk Adverse.

  • Where's the biggest struggle for May was my family man.

  • The people closest to me was the biggest struggle.

  • Every time I went out to do another deal, everybody told me, Do you don't need to do that, man.

  • The only person that was encouraging me was my twin brother because I would see how he was doing it.

  • Dude, he was making his swings, and so every time I'd get around other people.

  • So I'll tell you a little trick.

  • I did on weekends.

  • I would always go see homes I couldn't afford.

  • That has always inspired me.

  • I would go look, I would go drive neighborhoods literally.

  • I I've done this my entire life until I finally got to the point where they wouldn't even let me in the neighborhood.

  • There's neighborhoods in Miami do you can't even go see you can they won't even let you in the gates.

  • You know, I started a band in the world, laughed at me, literally laughed at me, kicked us around, talked about us in the press for years and still do, uh, you know, But we hunkered down.

  • We worked, and we worked and we worked.

  • We play arenas all over the world.

  • We have the most amazing, brilliant, beautiful fans one could ever ask for, and we've had an incredible life.

  • As a result, eso if I had listened to the choir to the chorus of everyone, I would have stopped because that's what people want you to do.

  • For some reason, some people would rather kill your dream than see you succeed.

  • I don't know what that is, You know, I think it's important to be stubborn and to to follow your dreams, no matter what, and the people who are like offended by it.

  • It doesn't matter you, you know, because it's about motivating the doers and anyone that wants to sit around and talk.

  • They're doing too much time.

  • It takes too much time talking a bit about it instead of getting up off their ass and following their dreams.

  • Because I'm here to follow my dreams, you know, and help other people follow their dreams and inspire people who are dreamers.

  • It's crazy that we live in a world that if you're super positive on super creative, that it's scary.

  • So what does that tell you about the mentality of most people?

  • If you're scared of positivity and creativity, E want to do something I've never done before and I don't know how, but I can imagine it.

  • I want to engage in the unknown.

  • I truthfully want to pursue the unknown and in the pursuit of the unknown.

  • Something comes to realization, and I'm never prepared for it.

  • So when I set out to do what I set out to do, I set out to do the impossible.

  • Everybody told me you're nuts.

  • You can't do that you can't do that, and that's also consistent with all entrepreneurs.

  • Um, there's always a legion of people who will tell them you can't do that.

  • And even if you could, why would you?

  • Um, there's so many better things to do other than that you could make so much more money from.

  • But money was really a very, very narrow part of what I was really setting out to do.

  • You know, you're always affected by opinion, but they're more opinions there are of you.

  • Me more.

  • The less I look at them because I just can't live my life based upon what other people think about.

  • So I can't concern myself too much with what other people think.

  • You know, it's just not healthy.

  • I don't think I could continue to do what I do.

don't ever let somebody tell you.

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