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  • There was a young man who, you know, who wanted to make a lot of money.

  • And so he went to this guru, right. And he told the guru you know

  • I wanna be on the same level you are and the guru said:

  • " if you wanna be on the same level I'm on, I'll meet you tomorrow at the beach. "

  • So the young man got there 4 A.M. He already rock n' roll.

  • Got on a suit, he should've wore shorts. The old man grabs his hand and said:

  • " How bad do you wanna be successful? " He said: “Real bad”.

  • He said: " Walk on out in the water. " So he walks out into the water. Watch this.

  • When he walks out to the water he goes waist deep. So he's like " this guy's crazy. "

  • Hey I wanna make money and he got me out here swimming.

  • I didn't ask to be a lifeguard. I wanna make money he got me in

  • so he said come on a little further walked out a little further

  • then he had it right around this area the shoulder area

  • so this old man crazy he making money but he crazy.

  • So he said come on out a little further he came out a little further, it was right at

  • his mouth my man, I’m not about to go back in this

  • guy is out of his mind. And the old man said: “I thought you said you wanted to be successful?”

  • He said: “I do.” He said: “Then walk a little further.”

  • He came, dropped his head in, held him down, hold him down, my man (kept scratching) hold

  • him down, he had him held down,

  • just before my man was about to pass out, he raised him up.

  • He said: “I got a question for you.” He told the guy, he said:

  • When you want to succeed as bad as you wanna breathe then you will be successful.”

  • I don't know how many of you all got asthma here today?

  • If you ever had a asthma attack before your short of breath S.O.B shortness of breath,

  • you wheezing (breath sound) the only thing you trying to do is get some air.

  • You don't care about no basketball game, you don't care about what's on T.V.

  • you don't care about nobody calling you, you don't care about a party.

  • The only thing you care about when you trying to breathe is to get some fresh air

  • That's it! And when you get to the point where all you wanna do is

  • be is successful as bad as you wanna breathe then you will be successful.

  • And I'm here to tell you that number one, most of you say you wanna be successful

  • but you don't want it bad, you just kind of want it.

  • You don't want it bad than you wanna party. You don't want it as much as you want to be cool.

  • Most of you don't want success as much as you want to sleep

  • Some of you lost sleep more than you lost success.

  • And I'm here to tell you today,

  • if you're going to be successful you gotta be willing to give up sleep.

  • You gotta be willing to work with 3 hours of sleep

  • 2 hours, if you really wanna be successful. Some day your gonna have to stay up 3 days in a row.

  • Because if you go to sleep you might miss

  • the opportunity to be successful. That's how bad you gotta (inaudible).

  • You gotta go days without LISTEN TO ME!

  • You gotta want to be successful so bad that you forget to eat.

  • Beyoncé say, once she was on the set doing her thing,

  • three days had gone by and she forgot that she didn't eat. Cause she was engaged.

  • I never forget, I went, 50 Cent was doing his movie,

  • I did a little research on 50 and 50 said: "that when he wasn’t do the movie he was doing the soundtrack."

  • And they said: “When do you sleep? 50 ”

  • Sleep he said: “Sleep, sleep is for those people who are broke."

  • I don't sleep. See I got an opportunity to make my dream become a reality.

  • Don't cry to quits. You already in pain, you already hurt.

  • Get a reward from it. Don't go to sleep until you succeed.

  • Listen to me, I'm here to tell you today you can come here and

  • and you can jump upyou can do flips and

  • you can be excited when we give away money but listen to me,

  • you will never be successful, I don't have to give you a dime if you (inaudible)

  • You won't be successful until you say I don't need that money

  • cause I got it in here.

There was a young man who, you know, who wanted to make a lot of money.

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