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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