Les Brown: “It’s Better to Be Prepared For an Opportunity and Not Have One, Than to Have an Opportunity and Not Be Prepared.”

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Les Brown delivers a fiery message on becoming relentless in pursuit of your dreams. He urges you to release your brakes, outgrow past defeats, surround yourself with energetic people, and refuse to be denied. Life may test you, but if you stay resourceful, creative, and unstoppable, opportunities appear — and you rise.

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0:41.5	You are unstoppable.
0:49.9	And because you are unstoppable, because you've got power that you haven't even begin to use yet,
0:52.4	you ought to yourself to release your brakes.
0:54.2	How many of you have the experience are pulling out of your driveway and you're mashed on the accelerator and the car was just going on and couldn't move.
0:59.7	And you mashed hard and it couldn't move.
1:01.6	And then you discovered you had your emergency brakes on.
1:05.1	And then you release those emergency brakes and it goes, chew.
1:08.8	Have you ever had that experience before?
1:11.3	Most of us go through life without breaks on.
1:31.5	Welcome back to the quote of the day show.
1:35.0	I am your host, Sean Croxton of Sean Croxton.com.
1:36.6	Happy Monday to you, my friend.
1:39.0	I hope your weekend was all kinds of incredible.
1:42.2	We got Les Brown on the show to kick off our week.
1:45.4	And as usual, I say this every time Les is on the show. a span of like eight minutes less is going to cover like four or five topics, including
1:50.1	surrounding yourself with the right people and also being persistent, right? If you just keep
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