1736 | Robert F. Smith: “You are Enough to Be Who You Want to Be."
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, billionaire Robert F. Smith shares his story about the early experiences that shaped his mindset, vision, and work ethic. Plus, he reveals 3 principles, or “dad rules", that will set you up for enormous success.
Source: Robert F Smith at Youth Symposium 2016 HD
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| 0:54.8 | Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host, Sean Crox and it's Sean Croxon.com. |
| 1:07.5 | We've got billionaire Robert F. Smith on the show today. Black billionaire, by the way, |
| 1:13.9 | and today Robert is going to talk about his early life experiences and how those experiences |
| 1:20.8 | shaped his mindset, his vision, and his work ethic. And he's also going to talk about |
| 1:26.0 | three dad rules or lessons or principles that will set you up for enormous success. |
| 1:32.4 | And you know, this one starts off a little bit slow, but just make sure you listen to the whole |
| 1:36.0 | thing because there are some gems in here. Robert F. Smith is coming up. |
| 1:43.2 | Let me give you a little bit of background in history. I grew up in Colorado. I'm the fourth |
| 1:46.4 | generation in my family from Colorado. We've been there since the 1860s. Half of us were marched |
| 1:51.3 | out there unwillingly in the 1860s. The other half kind of migrated up from Texas and parts of |
| 1:57.3 | Kansas in that period of time. And we settled in this little town called Pueblo, Colorado, |
| 2:01.8 | which as you can imagine, there weren't very many of us there as African Americans. But |
| 2:07.8 | one of the things you learn when you grow up in a place like Denver, Colorado, and is that |
| 2:15.2 | the strength of your community is critically important in terms of helping you understand |
| 2:20.7 | A, who you are, B, how to get to where you want to go. I come from a long line of educators, |
| 2:25.8 | school teachers. And in some cases, they found themselves with the highest level of education, |
| 2:32.0 | both of my parents have what we call, you know, doctors, EDDs, and education. |
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