Brother Speech - Speech

There was a young man, and he wanted to

make a lot of money, so he went to this

guru, right?

He told the guru, «I want to be on the

same level you are.»

The guru said, «If you want to be on the

same level I’m on, I’ll meet you tomorrow,

at the beach.»

So the young man got there at 4 a.m., he’s

all ready to rock and roll.

He wore a suit.

He should’ve worn shorts.

The old man

grabs his hand and says, how bad you

want to be successful?

He said, «Real

bad."He said, «Walk on out into the

water.»

So he walks on out into the water and,

watch this, when he walks out into the

water he goes waist-deep.

So he’s like,

this guy’s crazy.

He’s like, «Man, I want to make money,

you got me out here swimming.

I didn’t

ask to be a lifeguard.

I want to make

money.»

So he said, «Come on out a little further.»

He walked out a little further.

He had it

right around his stomach area.

Said, «This

old man’s crazy.

He makes money but

he’s crazy.»

«Come out a little further.»

He came out a little further, it’s right at

his mouth.

He’s like, «I'm about to go

back in, this guy is wild.»

The old man said, «I thought you said you

want to be successful.»

He said, «I do!»

He said, «Walk a little further.»

He came, dropped his head in, held him

down, holding him down, my man’s

kicking and scratching, he held him down,

just before my man’s 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 want

to breathe, then you’ll be successful.

I don’t know how many of ya’ll got

asthma in here today, but if you ever had

an asthma attack, you’re short of breath

—S.O.B., shortness of breath—and you’re

wheezin', the only thing your’e trying to

do, is get some air.

You don’t care about

no basketball game.

You don’t care what’s

on TV.

You don’t care about nobody

calling you.

You don’t care about a party.

The only thing you care about when

you’re trying to breathe is to try to get

some fresh air.

That’s it.

And when you

get to the point where all you want to do

is be successful as bad as you want to

breathe, then you’ll be successful.

And I’m here to tell you that some of you

want to be successful, but you don’t want

it bad.

You just kinda want it.

You don’t

want it badder than you want a 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

love sleep more than you love success!

And I’m here to tell you today if you’re

going to be successful, you’ve gotta be

willing willing to give up sleep.

You’ve got

to be willing to work off three hours of

sleep, two hours of sleep.

If you really want to be successful, some

days you’re going to have to stay up three

days in a row, because if you go to sleep,

you might miss the opportunity to be

successful.

That’s how bad you gotta want

it.

You gotta want to be successful so bad

that you forget to eat.

Beyonce said once she was on the set,

doing her thing, three days had gone by,

she forgot she didn’t' eat.

Because she was

engaged.

I’ll never forget, when 50 Cent had one of

his movies out, I was doing a little

research on 50, 50 said, that when he

wasn’t doing the movie he was doing the

soundtrack.

They said, when do you sleep,

50?

He said, Sleep?

Sleep is for those

people who are broke.

I don’t sleep.

I got

an opportunity to make a dream become a

reality.

Don’t cry or quit.

You’re already in pain.

You’re 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, you can jump up, you

can be excited when we give away money,

but listen to me, you are never going to be

successful until I don’t have to give you a

dime to do what you do.

You won’t be successful until you say I

don’t need that money!

Because I got it in

here!