This TED Talk features stock picker Curtis Wall Street Carol recorded live at TEDx San Quentin

2016.

I was 14 years old inside of a Bolin alley, burglarizing an arcade game.

And upon exiting the building, a security guard grabbed my arm, so I ran.

I ran down the street, and I jumped on top of a fence.

And when I got to the top, the weight of 3,000 quarters in my book bag pulled me back down

to the ground.

So when I came to,

the security guard was standing over the top of me and he said, next time you little punk still

something you can carry. I was taking a juvenile hall. And when I was releasing to the custody

of my mother, the first words my uncle said was, how did you get caught?

I said, man, the book bag was too heavy.

He said, man, you weren't supposed to take all the quarters.

I said, man, they were small.

What am I supposed to do?

And 10 minutes later, he took me to burglarize another arcade game.

We needed gas money to get home.

That was my life. I grew up in Oakland, California,

with my mother and members of my immediate family addicted to crack cocaine. My environment consisted of

living with family, friends, and homeless shelters. Oftentimes, dinner were served in bread lines and soup kitchens.

The big homie told me this.

Money rules the world and everything in it.

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