Arnold Schwarzeneggers Speech Will Leave You SPEECHLESS One of the Most Eye Opening Speeches Ever

i’m here to talk about success

the first rule of success is to have a

vision

you see if you don’t have a vision of

where you go and if you don’t have a

goal

where you go you drift around and you

never

end up anywhere so i was very fortunate

that i stumbled under my vision

i mean as you know i was born in 1947 in

austria

after the second world war and i didn’t

really

like austria when i grew up i couldn’t

wait to get out of there

i couldn’t see myself becoming a farmer

or a worker in a factory or anything

like that

even though my parents wanted me to stay

there and have a normal life

but that was their vision not mine my

vision was totally different i felt that

i was born for something special for

something unique

for something big then one day i went to

school

i remember i was 11 years old

and they showed a documentary about

america

and there they showed this documentary

the huge skyscrapers

the high rises the huge bridges

the six lane freeways and all of this

stuff in this msf

that’s where i want to be how i don’t

want to be around here with these little

farm houses and these little buildings

i want to be in america one day

after school i walked by a store in graz

so i went inside and i looked around and

looked at this stuff and then i saw a

magazine

i saw a bodybuilding magazine that had

reg park

on the cover bridge park was then a

three-time mr universe

and i saw him on the big screen as

hercules

i read that and i said to myself wow

this is the blueprint for my life

this is exactly what i want to do i want

to become a bodybuilding champion just

like reg park

i want to get into movies just like rich

park

and i want to make millions of dollars

and be rich and famous

just like reg park do you know how great

it felt

that i knew where i was going

imagine the majority of people don’t

know where they’re going

i knew where i was going that i’m going

to become this bodybuilding champion

just like him so it was just a question

of how do you do it

i was so relieved

because when you have a goal when you

have a vision everything becomes easy

so people always ask me when they saw me

in the gym in the pumping iron days

they said why is it that you’re working

out so hard

five hours a day six hours a day and you

have always a smile on your face

and i told people all the time i said

because to me

i’m shooting for goal in front of me is

the mr universe title

so every rep that i do gets me closer to

accomplishing that goal to make this

core

this vision turned into reality every

single

set that i do every repetition every

weight of the lift will get me a step

closer to

turn this goal into reality so i

couldn’t wait to do another 500 pound

squat

i couldn’t wait to do another 500 pound

bench press

i couldn’t wait to do another 2 000 reps

of sit-ups

i couldn’t wait for the next exercise

with the age of 20 i went to london

and i won the mr universe contest as the

youngest mr universe ever

and it was because i had a goal

so let me tell you something visualizing

your goal and going after it

makes it fun you got to have a purpose

no matter what you do in life

you’ve got to have a purpose

74 percent hate their job in america

now there’s not much different when you

come to europe the majority of people

don’t like what they’re doing because

they’re really not doing it because they

didn’t have a gourd and they followed

the score

they just aimlessly drift around and

then all of a sudden there’s a job

opening so they get their job

because you have to work but then when

you work

it’s a chore it’s work

it’s not fun so if you think about only

a quarter of the people really enjoy

what they’re doing

in life that is unbelievable if you

think about it so i felt so blessed that

i knew what i was doing

it’s like a medical student that studies

and knows he wants to become a doctor

you know where to go

and the same thing is also in politics

i remember that in politics i had a very

clear vision

that i will be the leader of california

there’s as far as i could go because i

was not born in america so i could not

run for president

so being the governor of the fifth

largest state

i should say the largest state the fifth

largest economy

in the world was for me really

the ultimate title the ultimate

accomplishment in politics

so even though people came up to me and

says why don’t you go

and run for something smaller you’re

never going to make it

i ran for governor and then two months

later i became governor of the state of

california

again because i had a very clear vision

what i’m gonna do with california

so that’s rule number one have a vision

rule number two is don’t listen to the

naysayers

don’t listen to the naysayers

everything i ever did the thing that

they heard out of people’s mouth was

that’s impossible that can’t be done

or no that is exactly what i heard and

of course i proved to the people that it

can’t be done

so whenever someone said to me it can’t

be done i heard

it can be done when they said no i heard

yes

and when they said it’s impossible i

heard it is possible

i’m a strong believer what nelson

mandela said

that everything is always impossible

until

someone does it well i’m gonna be the

one that said to myself i’m gonna do it

and i’m gonna show it to them maybe it

has never been done before

that’s perfectly fine with me but i’m

gonna do it

and i did not listen to the naysayers

it’s all about the hard work that you

put in i said the merciful bodybuilding

i worked

out five six hours a day i’m gonna do

the same thing now for acting

and of course i went to college to study

english

i studied the said voice

accent removal acting classes

and all of this stuff all day long i

worked and i worked and it worked

and within a short period of time i made

one movie called hercules in new york

which of course went right into the

toilet

but it didn’t discourage me i still had

the same vision

and then all of a sudden i did streets

of san francisco

i did stay hungry and pumping on and the

villain

and then all of a sudden i was asked by

dino de laurentiis in the universal

studio

the biggest studio to star in conan the

barbarian

and after i did conan the barbarian the

director at the press conference said

to the press the director was john

millius

he said to the press if we wouldn’t have

had arnold we would have had to build

one so think about that

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the very body that they said

can never be sold because the time is

wrong

a few years later i’m doing conan the

barbarian and it was the number one hit

at the box office when they came out in

the summer of 82.

think about that and the director says

if he wouldn’t have had his body

we would have had to build one so all of

a sudden

my body became an asset not a liability

and the same thing was with terminator

after people finished filming terminator

jim cameron said to the press if arnold

wouldn’t have had that accent and talk

like a machine

i think the movie wouldn’t have worked

so think about that

the body and the accent that they

attacked

was an asset

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but i didn’t listen to those losers

i didn’t listen to them at all is just

the reality of it

is that you cannot listen to the

naysayers so this is a very

important lesson for all of you so when

someone says no this is a stupid idea

you in your mind you don’t have to say

it but your mind just say this of

you what do you know

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