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  • Uh, you know, when I... When I was a kid I could go through a math book in a week

  • so I'm gonna go see about uh, a job they get down there. - What job?

  • Stockbroker

  • Stockbroker?

  • Yeah

  • Not an astronaut? NEVER GIVE UP

  • But I listened to what Jim Bob Arnold said 21 years ago

  • The most poignant seven words ever uttered in any speech anywhere

  • Don't give up. Don't ever give up.

  • Those great people didn't.

  • So...

  • I now have a responsibility to also not ever give up.

  • I'm not special.

  • I just listen to what the man said.

  • There are sometimes in life

  • where you fall down

  • and you feel like you don't have the strength to get back up.

  • I will try one hundred times to get up

  • and if I fail one hundred times

  • If I fail and I give up do you think that I'm ever (going to) gonna get up?

  • No.

  • But if I fail I try again...

  • and again... and again.

  • For as long as I try there is always that chance of getting up.

  • No matter what you might be going through

  • don't quit.

  • The secret is in not giving up.

  • Everybody who has done something great

  • they weren't that deep.

  • But they had was resilience.

  • They had the ability to bounce back.

  • All the greats, they didn't quit.

  • No matter how impossible your situation may seem

  • stay on course.

  • I guarantee you can not pass it if you quit.

  • I guarantee you are going to fail

  • but you don't know what's gonna happen if you keep going.

  • I'm fragile.

  • I feel pain.

  • I hurt.

  • I open my eyes.

  • I crave victory.

  • I do not give up.

  • I feel no fear.

  • I fear no man.

  • I create.

  • I conquer.

  • I hold the power.

  • Make a choice

  • Just decide

  • what it's going to be

  • who you are going to be

  • how you are going to do it.

  • Just decide.

  • And then from that point

  • the universe is going to get out of your way.

  • We can't have another bad year.

  • You've got to get to the point where enough is enough.

  • It's much easier to come up with excuses of why you can't do it.

  • If you do what is easy

  • your life will be hard.

  • If you do what is easy

  • complain about your situation, your circumstances

  • surrender and give up on your dreams

  • become depressed

  • and bitter and angry.

  • Anybody can do that. If you do what is easy

  • your life will be hard.

  • But if you do what is hard

  • keep coming back again and again and again

  • get up dressed every day

  • Take life on.

  • Taking life by the collar

  • you say: yes!

  • I will do it!

  • I can do this.

  • And you've said yourself I'm willing to face the no's.

  • I'm willing for people to laugh at me.

  • I'm willing to gut this out

  • I'm willing to make this happen.

  • It's my time.

  • It's possible.

  • It's necessary.

  • It's hard.

  • It's worth it.

  • I'm going to do whatever it takes

  • I can do this. Anybody that has done this at any point in time.

  • In history

  • then what's possible for one

  • It's possible for me!

  • And I'm going to do it.

  • And if you do that over and over and over again

  • Your life will be easy.

  • Tomorrow is going to be your first day.

  • If you'd like to work here as a broker.

  • Would you like that Chris?

  • Yes, sir.

Uh, you know, when I... When I was a kid I could go through a math book in a week

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