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Entrepreneurs on Fire

Oprah Winfrey's Commencement Address at Harvard

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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This is a transcript of Oprah Winfrey's Commencement Address at Harvard University from 2013.

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Boom! Shake the room fire nation! Today I have a commencement address by Oprah Winfrey

0:09.0

for the Harvard class of 2013. This talk by Oprah was incredibly revealing. She shares

0:16.4

some pretty personal details here about her recent failures of hers and I hope you enjoy

0:20.7

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That's eofire.com slash funnel. Alright Fire Nation let's dive into Oprah Winfrey's

1:13.2

commencement address at Harvard University back in 2013. My one hope today is that I can

1:20.0

be a source of some inspiration. I'm going to address my remarks to anybody who was ever

1:24.9

felt inferior or felt disadvantaged felt screwed by life. This is a speech for the quad.

1:32.1

Actually I was so honored to do something really special for you. I wanted to be able to

1:36.0

have you look under your seats and there'd be a free master and doctorate degrees but I see

1:40.6

you got that cover already and I'll be honest with you I felt a lot of pressure over the past

1:44.8

few weeks to come up with something that you hadn't heard before because after all you all

1:48.8

went to Harvard I did not. But then I realized you don't have to necessarily go to Harvard to have

1:53.5

a driven obsessive type a personality but it helps. And while I may not have graduated from here

1:59.0

I admit that my personality is about as hard as they come. You know my television career began

2:04.0

unexpectedly. As you heard this morning I was in the misfire prevention contest. That was what I

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