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  • - Last year I spoke at the Salt Convention.

  • The Salt Convention is where billionaires

  • from around the world gather.

  • They gather in Vegas once a year

  • to talk about how they're gonna change the world.

  • There's a couple hundred billionaires in this world.

  • They all come to Las Vegas once a year to Salt Convention.

  • I was asked last year to be the keynote speaker.

  • And I'm trippin' because I'm not a billionaire.

  • And I ask the guy who asked me to do it,

  • I said I'm not a billionaire, you do understand that?

  • He said Mister Harvey we know everything about you,

  • we know your net worth and everything.

  • I said well what can you all learn from me?

  • He said everything.

  • He said the reason we wanna hear your story

  • is because the majority of us that are billionaires,

  • we inherited some money, and we grew it.

  • A couple of us inherited a billion, we automatically.

  • Some of us inherited 300 million,

  • and we turned it into a billion.

  • You come from nothing.

  • What we wanna know is how you got to where you are

  • after coming from nothing.

  • How did you live in a car for three years

  • and wind up on more TV shows than anybody?

  • How did you survive flunking out of school?

  • How did you survive all of that?

  • We wanna know that.

  • Because in case something happens to us,

  • we don't really have the information that you have.

  • On how to come from the back to the front.

  • Or how to come from the bottom to the top.

  • So I get asked oftentimes to speak.

  • What I told them was really compelling.

  • Because they almost had to never hear it,

  • because they never had to learn it.

  • See if you've never been in the bottom,

  • there's some stuff you ain't never had to know.

  • But all of you that have been in the bottom,

  • you know it all too well don't you?

  • So when I was telling them how I made it,

  • I was telling them about the fortitude that I developed,

  • and then I told 'em about the faith that I had.

  • And that was really startling to them.

  • Now a lot of them are people of faith,

  • but a lot of people who were born with a lot of money

  • ain't really had to have a lot of faith.

  • You understand?

  • You have an idea of what it feels like.

  • You've seen some kids get put in foster care.

  • You've seen child protective services

  • come to somebody's house.

  • You've seen kids come to school with less.

  • You might have been one of the kids

  • that went to school with less.

  • You have struggled to give your kids a better life

  • than the one you had.

  • They don't hear this.

  • But I'm gonna tell you something right now.

  • You can be successful without an education.

  • You can be successful without coming from a rich family.

  • You can be successful, I don't care what color you are,

  • what faith you belong to,

  • your sexual preference, I don't care what's wrong with you.

  • You can be successful.

  • I'm gonna tell you flat out,

  • you have got to tie your existence to your creator.

  • If you don't tie who you are to God,

  • I got news for you, you're gonna forever struggle.

  • Now, what I'm telling you is something you can do today.

  • You ain't gotta go to school to get this one.

  • You ain't gotta have no meeting with nobody.

  • I'm telling you that if you solidify

  • a relationship with God,

  • you ain't gotta ask nobody's permission,

  • you ain't gotta check-in, he ain't got no line.

  • You can go and form this relationship today,

  • this evening when you get home.

  • (applause)

  • Listen man, you can shortcut this.

  • I ain't got no education, I flunked out of school.

  • I'm on my third marriage.

  • I lost everything I ever owned twice.

  • I had a severe stuttering problem growing up.

  • I've been picked and teased my whole life.

  • I've been homeless and lived in a car for three years.

  • What you fittin' to tell me?

  • That I don't know 'bout him.

  • I will tell you what God can do.

  • He can do anything.

  • God can pick you up when you at your lowest moment.

  • God can take your existence and turn it around.

  • Now listen to me, I ain't no preacher,

  • I'm a street cat.

  • You understand, I'm not a good Christian.

  • I'm a Christian, you know,

  • (laughing)

  • but at best I'm an entry level Christian.

  • I don't do advanced Christianity.

  • Like on a scale of one to 10, I'm probably like a two.

  • But I got news for you,

  • that's all you got to be.

  • Because you know why?

  • 'cause there's none perfect, no not one.

  • There are no perfect people.

  • (applause)

- Last year I spoke at the Salt Convention.

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