| There was a young man, and he wanted to
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| make a lot of money, so he went to this
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| guru, right?
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| He told the guru, «I want to be on the
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| same level you are.»
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| The guru said, «If you want to be on the
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| same level I’m on, I’ll meet you tomorrow,
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| at the beach.»
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| So the young man got there at 4 a.m., he’s
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| all ready to rock and roll. |
| He wore a suit.
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| He should’ve worn shorts. |
| The old man
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| grabs his hand and says, how bad you
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| want to be successful? |
| He said, «Real
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| bad."He said, «Walk on out into the
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| water.»
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| So he walks on out into the water and,
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| watch this, when he walks out into the
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| water he goes waist-deep. |
| So he’s like,
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| this guy’s crazy.
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| He’s like, «Man, I want to make money,
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| you got me out here swimming. |
| I didn’t
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| ask to be a lifeguard. |
| I want to make
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| money.»
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| So he said, «Come on out a little further.»
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| He walked out a little further. |
| He had it
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| right around his stomach area. |
| Said, «This
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| old man’s crazy. |
| He makes money but
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| he’s crazy.»
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| «Come out a little further.»
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| He came out a little further, it’s right at
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| his mouth. |
| He’s like, «I'm about to go
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| back in, this guy is wild.»
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| The old man said, «I thought you said you
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| want to be successful.»
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| He said, «I do!»
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| He said, «Walk a little further.»
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| He came, dropped his head in, held him
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| down, holding him down, my man’s
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| kicking and scratching, he held him down,
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| just before my man’s about to pass out, he
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| raised him up. |
| He said, I got a question
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| for you. |
| He told the guy, he said, when
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| you want to succeed as bad as you want
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| to breathe, then you’ll be successful.
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| I don’t know how many of ya’ll got
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| asthma in here today, but if you ever had
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| an asthma attack, you’re short of breath
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| —S.O.B., shortness of breath—and you’re
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| wheezin', the only thing your’e trying to
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| do, is get some air. |
| You don’t care about
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| no basketball game. |
| You don’t care what’s
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| on TV. |
| You don’t care about nobody
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| calling you. |
| You don’t care about a party.
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| The only thing you care about when
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| you’re trying to breathe is to try to get
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| some fresh air. |
| That’s it. |
| And when you
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| get to the point where all you want to do
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| is be successful as bad as you want to
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| breathe, then you’ll be successful.
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| And I’m here to tell you that some of you
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| want to be successful, but you don’t want
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| it bad. |
| You just kinda want it. |
| You don’t
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| want it badder than you want a party.
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| You don’t want it as much as you want to
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| be cool. |
| Most of you don’t want success as
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| much as you want to sleep! |
| Some of you
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| love sleep more than you love success!
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| And I’m here to tell you today if you’re
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| going to be successful, you’ve gotta be
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| willing willing to give up sleep. |
| You’ve got
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| to be willing to work off three hours of
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| sleep, two hours of sleep.
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| If you really want to be successful, some
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| days you’re going to have to stay up three
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| days in a row, because if you go to sleep,
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| you might miss the opportunity to be
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| successful. |
| That’s how bad you gotta want
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| it.
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| You gotta want to be successful so bad
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| that you forget to eat.
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| Beyonce said once she was on the set,
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| doing her thing, three days had gone by,
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| she forgot she didn’t' eat. |
| Because she was
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| engaged.
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| I’ll never forget, when 50 Cent had one of
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| his movies out, I was doing a little
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| research on 50, 50 said, that when he
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| wasn’t doing the movie he was doing the
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| soundtrack. |
| They said, when do you sleep,
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| 50? |
| He said, Sleep? |
| Sleep is for those
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| people who are broke. |
| I don’t sleep. |
| I got
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| an opportunity to make a dream become a
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| reality.
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| Don’t cry or quit. |
| You’re already in pain.
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| You’re already hurt! |
| Get a reward from it!
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| Don’t go to sleep until you succeed!
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| Listen to me, I’m here to tell you today,
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| you can come here, you can jump up, you
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| can be excited when we give away money,
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| but listen to me, you are never going to be
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| successful until I don’t have to give you a
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| dime to do what you do.
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| You won’t be successful until you say I
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| don’t need that money! |
| Because I got it in
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| here! |