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the greatest graduation speeches of all time. There have been some fantastic commencement

talks over the past few decades and we've collected the best of the best for you to enjoy

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Welcome to the commencement speech of John B. Fisher who is an entrepreneur and this

is at the University of San Francisco back in 2018. Thank you very much. My father's

commencement speaker was the great Martin Luther King. My father was 20 years old and

didn't show up for that talk so thank you for showing up. Thank you Dean Davis, President

Fitzgerald, my friend Dr. Mark Canis and the rest of the distinguished faculty and invited

guests, the families and especially the parents. Especially the parents who labored to get

here financially, medically, emotionally. And can I get an amen for the University of San

Francisco graduates? I'm honored you graduates will spend such a special moment of your lives

with me. Of course you didn't really have a choice. I was President Fitzgerald's decision.

A decision made by a man who has lived, studied and worked all over the world, including Germany,

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