Arnold Schwarzenegger HOW TO BECOME A SELFMADE MILLIONAIRE with BIG subtitles.

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it is wonderful thank you so much for

the wonderful introduction president

Couture it is fantastic to be here today

at the University of Houston and thank

you also for the great work that you’re

doing on behalf of all those students

let’s give a big big hand for the

wonderful work that your president could

do is doing here at the University I

tell you when I read her bio I am so

proud of her

what a great immigrant how many great

contributions she makes to this

university to this state under this

country when I heard that she was the

first Indian immigrant to lead a

comprehensive research university in the

United States I said to myself I’m gonna

hit it off really well with her

and the reason is because I love going

to places where I’m not the only one

with an accent but seriously I’m proud

to be introduced by our fellow immigrant

the students are very lucky here to have

such a fantastic and talented leader I

also wanted to say thank you to the

faculty you have spent years teaching

the students inspiring them and

occasionally man arguing with them but

none of them will be here without you so

big hand to the faculty finally I would

like to say thank you to the parents in

to the families that are here today you

shape the students from the beginnings

of their lives way before they became

proud Cougars you have been there for

them and every step of the way giving

them advice and giving them affection

and love and pushing them along and

probably sometimes even worried about

them but thank you very much for all the

great work that you have done let’s give

the parents in the families a big hand

of applause

and now now to the students now this is

a big day for all of you and I know some

of you gonna say wait a minute this is

our day while Schwarzenegger thanking

everyone here in Houston when is he

gonna get to us well first of all

congratulations to all of you I know

that it took a huge vision great vision

and a lot of work and a lot of studying

and there’s no one they can study for

you you have to do that yourself so I

just want you all to know that I am very

very proud of all of you thank you for

the great work that you’ve done now in

your diplomas there will only be one

name on it and this is yours

but I hope that doesn’t confuse you and

did you think maybe that you made it

that far by yourself no he didn’t it

took a lot of help none of us can make

it alone none of us not even the guy

that is talking to you right now there

was the greatest body build of all times

not even me that has been the Terminator

and went back in time to save the human

race

not even me that fought and it killed

predators with spear hands I always tell

people that you can call me anything

that you want you can call me Arnold you

can call me Schwarzenegger you can call

me the Austrian okay can call me

schwartzie you can call me Ani

but don’t ever ever call me a self-made

man but this is so important for you to

understand I didn’t make it that far my

own I mean to accept that credit but

that mentor would discount every single

person that has helped me to get here

today that gave me advice that made an

effort that gave me the time that lifted

me up when I fell he gives the wrong

impression that we can’t do it alone

none of us can the whole concept of the

self-made man or woman is a myth now I

know you’re gonna say look we read so

many stories about you and we saw

documentaries but you talked about that

you are the model of the American Dream

and that you had the perfect example of

the self-made man well let me tell you I

have seen and heard and read those

stories myself and joy reading them but

the fact of the matter is it is not the

whole story

I didn’t just materialize out of nowhere

like the Terminator threw a fireball and

the streets of Los Angeles and then all

of a sudden I was there no I would have

never made it in my life without the

help but I happened to be someone for

instance that believes in God

maybe were created by God

but let’s assume for a second that

you’re nothing that that then you must

also believe in a at least believe in a

para la djegal aspect that our parents

created us I know I wouldn’t be here

without my parents creating me nurturing

me feeding me changing my diapers loving

me hugging me and all that and then

later on when I went to school there

were the teachers and then there were

the mentors the coaches and then my

mother was the only afternoon helping me

with my homework and be tutoring and

then an evening my father was there

helping me in sports coaching us in

soccer and in the winter skiing sledding

ice skating ice curling and all those

kind of things my father taught me about

discipline and my love and appreciation

for sports and he gave me my first great

advice by saying whatever you do Arnold

be useful so you also read so many times

that I decided from one day to the next

to become a bodybuilding champion and I

started training five hours a day and

then it became the youngest mr. universe

ever well it is true but the fact of the

matter is it’s not the whole story

because if I wouldn’t have met a

lifeguard at the lake where I grew up

and some bodybuilders that introduced me

to weight training and they taught me

the first chin-up and a branch of a tree

by that Lake and that eventually

introduced me also to a weightlifting

Club locally where the coach has taught

me about powerlifting and weightlifting

and bodybuilding they helped me and they

nurtured me they pushed me and then

eventually I saw a magazine mid reg Park

and a cover it said mr. universe becomes

Hercules there was the reg parking a

Hercules posed on the cover

I bought that magazine and I read the

story from the front to the end

cover and let me tell you something I

read exactly how he trained five hours a

day and how I became a champion mr.

universe three times and how I went to

America and then he was discovered and

the movies Hercules movies more when I

read that I found my vision and let me

tell you the most important thing in

life is to have vision to know exactly

where you’re going I found my vision

that magazine reg Park gave me my

blueprint

for my life and five years later after

training five hours a day just like him

and doing his exercises I became through

his help and his inspiration the

youngest mr. universe ever and this is

what made them Joe Weider the father of

bodybuilding the owner of a giant food

supplement empire on the Edit of Muscle

& Fitness invited me to America so it

was show me that they problem with

America to the greatest country in the

world to give me the opportunity to

train in Gold’s Gym and to go and get me

little apartment I came over here with

absolutely nothing

it was his help I had $20 in the pocket

and some sweaty clothes in the gym bag

but let me tell ya I had this one little

apartment and on Thanksgiving the

bodybuilders from gorgeous gym came to

my apartment and they brought me pillows

dishes silverware all of the things that

didn’t have and even a black-and-white

TV in the transistor radio which is

still half the day on my end table next

to my bed the generosity that I saw the

amount of help that I got when I came to

America was absolutely extraordinary so

firsthand how generous the American

people are and then in Gords gym there

it was a magical place with all the

champions mr. America’s mr. world mr.

universe

everyone was training their power

lifters Olympic champions and so on and

they helped me change from an amateur

champion to a professional champion and

after that I want champion of the

championship with seven times mr.

Olympia you here at all and became the

greatest bodybuilder four times

according to the bodybuilding magazine

in 1975 now this is just with all of the

help I would not have made any of that

for myself so this is why I don’t

believe in a self-made man and even when

it comes to show business it was the

same thing I mean I you read the stories

ditch what’s negative sided from one day

to the next to retire from bodybuilding

and to go and become an actor it in no

time he did Conan the Barbarian and

Terminator and command and so on

what is this true but it is only half of

the story

because the reality of it is with a lot

of help of when they made it first of

all it would have been fun to make it

that easy and to be that easy but it was

very very difficult to get into the

movies very difficult and only because I

had help I could get in because in the

beginning every agent every manager

every studio executive said you will

never become a leading man look at your

body you look like a monster I was upset

about that because it rained so hard and

for so long it orbs then they call me

monsters but the bottom line is they say

this is the 70s 20 years ago to deter

Keeley’s movies today the little guys

are in Dustin Hoffman Al Pacino Woody

Allen those are the sex symbols of the

seven distantly understand it I said oh

my god away I mean but they even

belittle me with my accent they said

look the way you talk I have to be very

honest I don’t want to offend you but

you give me the creeps with your accent

with the German accents it’s scary

this is maybe we can get you a job in

Hogan’s Heroes in that TV show to play a

Nazi officer and plus your name Schwartz

and schnitzel or whatever it is there I

can see that already up then the

billboard

and people running in because of the

name so the bottom line is it was very

very difficult but only because they

decided not to listen to the naysayers

and because I decided that to work as

hard as I did in bodybuilding to take

acting lessons to take voice lessons

English lessons speech lessons and

accent removal lessons I know you’re

gonna say get your money back Arnold

but the bottom line is I ran around the

fine wine grows on a vine because the

Germans always had difficulties with the

F and the W and the be a fine wine grows

on the vine and then the sink is made

out of zinc and all those kind of things

so they did his thousands of times and

eventually it worked

I started getting little pots then I

started getting bigger pots and then

eventually even though it was very

difficult it was Dino De Laurentiis and

Ed Pressman that came to me with corn

and the Barbarian and if they wouldn’t

have helped me to get that part I would

not have broken through and become a

leading man this movie came out they

spent twenty million dollars which in

today’s terms is around two hundred

million dollars on that movie it was

number one in the box office and that

was for me the big breakthrough and at

the press conference the director even

said if we wouldn’t have Schwarzenegger

we would have had to build one because I

was the only one that could act and had

a body like that for Conan the Barbarian

and then of course there was James

Cameron the director Terminator when

Terminator came out James Cameron said

the reason why Terminator worked was

because what’s negative slack a machine

and I don’t know if I should think this

is a compliment or what but I mean the

bottom line is it was the two things

that the studio executives said will be

a big liability became big assets and my

career took off and this is why I always

say thank you to the people that helped

me along the way and not ever think that

I’m a self-made man because not only was

the producer and the director so helpful

and the studio executives too helpful

but every person that works in a movie

is a matter of fact when you have a wrap

party which is the party on the end of

the movie I always make sure that every

single person gets invited to that wrap

party to say thank you to them at the

wrap party and go to the microphone and

say thank you to the cameraman because

without him I wouldn’t look as great on

the screen to the makeup person to the

visual effects person to the stunt

people the stunt coordinator the cable

poulos craft services and the list goes

on and on and on there’s 280 people that

work on a movie that make you look great

on that screen so how can I say I’m a

self-made man so this is why it is

important for all of us to recognize and

this is why I tell you and every step of

the way I had help even when I ran for

governor people say yeah one day he

decided to run for governor

and to take over the sixth largest

economy in the world now this is not the

way it was yes I took over and yes I won

the governorship birds if it wouldn’t

have been for Jay Leno who hosted the

Tonight Show who I called a week before

and I said I want to announce my

candidacy on your show and at the night

show because I want to sell myself as an

outsider because the people in

California is sick and tired of the

typical politician so he said to me and

it was a great friend he says yes I’m

gonna help you with that and I had

announced without anyone knowing on

August 6th

on The Tonight Show my candidacy and he

even organized a hundred journalists

from politics to sit in the back when I

announced my candidacy so this is the

kind of help I gotten from then of

course I didn’t even have a team yet

people came out of nowhere I understood

at helping organ

with the campaign and did fundraising

and with the communication and with all

of those things and I became two months

later the governor of the state of

California but it took a lot of help and

I have to say that it is important to

acknowledge that because people make it

or it sounds that you did all this

yourself I didn’t I did it with a lot of

help yes I was determined yes I never

listen to the naysayers yes I had a

great vision yes I had the fire in the

belly and all of those things but I

didn’t do it without the help and even

when you then say Schwarzenegger did

that most unbelievable environmental

laws in California well guess how laws

are done it takes the legislators 120

legislators to negotiate for weeks and

months at the time and then they sent

down legislation and then you sign that

so you need that help too so I had a lot

of help along the way and this is why it

is so important for all of you to

recognize that and the biggest help of

course in calculus from America if I

wouldn’t have come to the United States

if I would have come to any other

country I would not have had the success

I mean America has proven not only to be

the land of opportunity image-wise but

America’s proven to be the greatest

country in the world where anyone can

make it this is why I always tell people

none of my careers would have happened

if it wouldn’t be for the United States

of America I could have gone to the

Middle East you think I would stand here

today I could have gone to Africa do you

think it would stand here today or do

Australia or to Asia shall do any other

country in Europe it makes no difference

this place has given me the

opportunities step after step all the

ways to all my speaker ears and the

millions and millions of dollars are

made all because of America so Thank You

America for the great thing that you’re

doing for immigrants that come over here

and the reason why I want you to

understand that is is because as soon as

you understand that you are here because

of a lot of help then you also

understand that now is time to help

others that’s what this is all about you

got to help others don’t just think

about yourself help others as my

father-in-law sergeant Shriver said at

the Yale University commencement speech

just like I’m speaking right now here

except I speak the better University but

he but he said Sargent Shriver so you

know he was the guy that created the

Peace Corps the Job Corps legal aid to

the poor and orders extraordinary human

being and under the Johnson and Kennedy

administration and so he said that these

students he said tear down this mural

tear down this mirror that makes you

always look at yourself and he will be

able to look beyond this mural and see

the millions of people didn’t need your

help and let me tell you something when

I heard that it all made sense to me

that we have to go out and help this is

why I got involved in Special Olympics

to be the international coach of Special

Olympics and then eventually it became

the chairman of the President’s Council

on physical fitness in sports I was

appointed by President Bush my favorite

host own Ian and the flesh should they

not say the only one but Barbara I

should add Barbara because I see them

later on I don’t want to leave out

Barbara here because otherwise she gets

really mad yeah so anyway both of them

know and then they traveled to all 50

states to promote health and fitness and

then eventually started after-school

programs and now be in 40 different

cities 48 different cities providing

after-school programs for over a hundred

thousand kids in orders so I mean it is

to me was very important to give back

and also to go every time I travel

around the world to go to military bases

and to visit our brave men and women

that save us that protect us to say

thank you thank you thank you to them

anywhere in the world that I travel so

it is important to recognize that so all

I’m saying is it is my challenge to you

today to go ahead and to celebrate your

accomplishments you should this

commencement is a great success in each

of you earned your diplomas but at some

point take a break from the celebration

away from the instagrams and snapchat

and think about all of the people that

helped you make sure the go to recognize

president Couture and to say thank you

to her for the great work that she has

done say thank you to the Dean’s of this

university that are responsible to make

this university so great say thank you

that the professors and the scioscia

professors everyone they talked and

everyone that’s responsible for you to

be here today and go the appearance and

give them a big big hug and tell them

that you love them and thank you for

everything that you have done to get me

here today do that and give something

back to your community and to your stage

and to this country because remember and

we are not going to be remembered for

how much we made but for how much we

have given make sure that it is not

about me that it is about we turn the me

in the wheel and I guarantee you that

you can change the world thank you very

much all of you Cougars thank you

and now I’m going to to do a snapchat

rhythmic asses let’s hear it

fantastic hasta la vista baby

and I’ll be back

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