Harnessing Time, Emotion, and Faith | San Diego State University Keynote
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the labor. |
| 0:06.0 | It's a terrible life to live in scarcity, and it's one in which I hope to change if any of you feel that way ever. |
| 0:14.0 | Your mindset to move to a different world, because no matter what you have or what you gain, and I'm living proof of it, |
| 0:21.0 | nine months out of law school, I was a millionaire, three years after law school, my first exit was $3.4 billion in 1995. |
| 0:29.0 | Billion dollars with a lot of money in 1995, people weren't just throwing that kind of B word around. |
| 0:36.0 | And yet, with all that money coming from nothing, I lived in the world of not enough. |
| 0:42.0 | Always wanting more money, more happiness, more health, and more wealth. |
| 0:48.0 | And it was a difficult world to live in. |
| 0:51.0 | Now, my mom, like many of yours, probably, my mom had a motto, right? |
| 0:55.0 | Doctor, lawyer, engineer, or failure. |
| 0:59.0 | The fetus wasn't fully developed until after graduate school, which is probably why all of my siblings, except for me, went to the Ivy Leagues and went through that process. |
| 1:08.0 | But when I graduated law school, I decided that not only I got a job offer at a law school to be an oil and gas litigator. |
| 1:17.0 | Now, the only reason I wanted to be an oil and gas litigator, proud that I graduated law school, was I wanted to be rich. |
| 1:26.0 | The reason I wanted to be rich is I wanted to buy my mom a house. |
| 1:30.0 | It was that said. |
| 1:31.0 | I ran the most notable sports agency in the world, and most of my athletes wanted to be rich and play football, so they could buy their mom a house. |
| 1:41.0 | So, it was a very common thing. |
| 1:43.0 | I dreamed of being rich and buy my mom a house, and I thought, if I buy my mom a house, my life will be complete. |
| 1:48.0 | I'll be happy the rest of my life. |
| 1:50.0 | That's all I want. |
| 1:51.0 | In fact, in second year law school, I remember sitting on the edge of my bed in a recession and saying to myself, gosh, if I just could buy my mom a house and pay off my law loans, |
| 2:01.0 | I would literally excuse my language, shovel ship with my hand six days a week, 12 hours a day, in gratitude. |
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