American - Businessman | February 9, 1954 -
I say to people all the time, it is OK to fail. Some of the greatest successes in the history of America started out as failures.
Chris Gardner
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You're never too old to do something new.
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I've been talking to a lot of young people, especially here in America. I let them know that the people who they're competing with for opportunities live all over the place. They're probably not in your city, state, or country; they are hungry, and they are grinding! Some of the things that a lot of us take for granted, these people don't.
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You want be young and have fun, that's great. But while you're having fun, someone you don't see is studying and preparing. You might end up working for that person. No one wants to hear that! But I try to tell young people: You want to be the one signing the front of the check, not the back.
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I am very, very conscious of time. I always wear two watches. People ask me, 'Why do you do that?' Because I was late once,and it cost me a huge opportunity.
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I'm known to be aggressively early.
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I made a decision as a five-year-old boy that my kids will know who their father is.
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I went through pain as a child so my children wouldn't have to.
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I have one of those old-fashioned mothers who told me every single day, 'Son, you can do or be anything that you want to do or be.' And I believed it. I bought into it 100%.
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I chose to embrace the spirit of my mother, who, though she had too many of her own dreams denied, deferred, and destroyed, she still instilled in me, her child, that I could have dreams and that I did have a responsibility and the power.
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So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can do something about it, and I'm seeing a lot of men doing something about it.
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I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?
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