[Music]
you got to become a risk taker right
there done this job said if you’re not
willing to risk you can’t grow and if
you can’t grow you can’t become your
best and if you can’t become your best
you can’t be happy and if you can’t be
happy then what else is there you know
what I saw dr. Norman Vincent Peale 23
years ago but for 13 years I wouldn’t
take the chance for 13 years I was
living in my comfort zone for 13 years I
kept saying West Brown you can’t do that
Les Brown you can’t have that kind of
audience Les Brown you don’t have the
oratorical skills you don’t have the
knowledge you don’t have the money I
kept saying I can’t do that there’s an
old African proverb that says if there’s
no enemy within the enemy outside can do
us no harm
Bishop talks about the enemy in me if
there’s no enemy within how many of you
know that you’ve been your own worst
enemy raise your hands so you’ve got to
be willing to get outside your comfort
zone and no one could have told me that
the willingness to get outside of my
comfort zone the willingness to fail the
willingness to try to experiment the
willingness to take some chances the
willingness to do something I’ve never
done that in the last 12 years for 13
years and it
I convinced himself I couldn’t do it
then the last 12 years I’ve earned in
excess of 14 million dollars let me tell
you some 14 million dollars a good
garden and I help me haul and you can
make it through the winner and
Birmingham Alabama do you hear me no one
could have told me I have two books live
your dreams and it’s not over until you
win no one could have told me born in an
abandoned building on the floor labeled
educable mentally retarded no college
training no one could have told me I
would have produce five specials for
public television then I’ve had three
years ago the highest-rated fastest
cancelled talk show in the history of
television because I wouldn’t do those
conflict and controversy shows no one
could have told me I had no idea that I
can do what I’m doing right now let me
tell you what I know about you and I
don’t know you you got greatness within
you one a doctor huh doctor um kings
mentors dr. Howard Thurman said
something one night I was reading and I
couldn’t sleep
he said the ideal situation for a man a
woman to die if they have family members
standing around their bed praying with
him as they cross over he said but
imagine if you will being on your
deathbed and standing around you are the
ideas the dreams that have been given to
you by life the talents the gifts that
you’ve never nurtured that you never
develop the skills that you never did
anything with standing around your bed
looking at you with large angry eyes
saying we came to you only you could
have given us life and now we must die
with you forever and the question is if
you died now what dream
what ideas what talent what abilities
what skills what books what sermons what
seminars what businesses will die with
you
Myles Munroe said the wealthiest place
on the planet is not in the 40s where
they have oil in the ground it’s not in
South Africa where they have diamond
mines
he said the wealthiest place on the
planet is the cemetery because there
you’ll find dreams not pursue books
never written songs never saw sermons
never delivered businesses never erected
talents never nurtured skills never
develop you survive one out of 40
million sperms you were born to win God
wants you to be rich and wealthy and
successful and to live the abundant life
you must affirm that for yourself every
day so as you look at yourself and you
look at your life and you look at your
circumstances that you work on your
goals and your dreams here are some
things I want to give you write this
down
pull yourself to high standards see what
if Bishop TD jakes had decided when he
first received the idea of the manpower
conference that it could not be what if
he’d alive allowed that idea to die we
would not be here see many of you here
you are pregnant with some ideas I’m
telling you what I know I will leave
here this afternoon tonight in one hour
doing what I’m doing now what I
earn in excess of a hundred and fifty
thousand dollars I had no idea that I
had the capacity to do what I’m doing
right down you’ve got genius at you you
made and then lactis an image of God
you got greatness in you you have some
special stuff in you you showed up with
it so as you look at your life and you
decided become a risk-taker make it okay
to fail the experiment trial and error
repeat after me please no tests no
testimony yeah you’re gonna face some
hard times what’s the first thing they
say when you get on an airplane before
they take off fasten your seat belt
why because you will experience some
turbulence before you reach a
comfortable altitude
life was testing me when the man looked
at me and said you have prostate cancer
your tumor is too large to have the
surgery we’re gonna give you radiation
seed implants the most anybody’s ever
gotten looks 90 they gave me 238 I went
back three weeks ago they checked my PSA
level which indicates the presence of
cancer in your prostate area one to four
is normal beyond that is that you have
cancer and it’s spreading when I first
went a year ago it was six point one
when I went three weeks ago at Howard
University Hospital gave me an MRI it
was ten point five the guy said I’m
sorry to tell you this and so what do
you mean you’re in the same situation
that you were in when I when you came
here here’s something I heard at Christ
universal temple Church at a new
restaurant
Bishop TD jakes was praying for a lady
in a wheelchair and it’s odd how things
come to you when he finished praying for
the lady I’m sure there were some
questions were asked that weren’t verbal
that if the prayer worked why did she
get up and walk and what he said as he
was walking away
healing takes first place first he said
healing takes place first in the spirit
[Applause]
it didn’t matter about his numbers it
did not about their diagnosis judge not
according to appearances you must have a
faith the call for those things that be
not as though they were
now do you really believe see it’s one
thing to believe when you got money in
your pocket there’s one thing to believe
when your marriage is working out and
you got your health and your children
acting like they got good sense oh it’s
good to show the Lord is blessing me
it’s easy to believe then oh but when
you get that diagnosis say you ain’t
will be hello when you lose your job
when someone you thought you’ll be with
for the rest of your life said no we
can’t do this no more that’s when you
have to stand that’s when you have to
begin to live this faith and that’s not
on you that’s when you got to call on
something how do you let that mind be in
you you got to be out of your mind to
believe in spite of these numbers you
can still make it in spite of the pain
you feeling you can still come back
again you gotta be out of your mind
that’s right I’m in that Christ mind I
believe it and not when things are just
favourable not fair whether faith and
you’ve got to believe that when you’re
going out here with your ideas with your
products with your services and part of
being successful is you got to hold
yourself to high standards I used Bishop
Jake’s as a model his people take care
of you he’s thorough hold yourself to
high standards whatever you do there’s
no saying do not go where the path may
lead but go where there’s no path and
leave a trail
treat people with respect treat them the
way that you want to be treated Tony
who’s with me who’s been assigned to me
courteous respectful call several times
is there anything I can do for you can I
help you out
that’s first-class service if you decide
to provide first-class service
Johnny’s just a book called making
against the odds he said there’s no
defense against an excellence that meets
a pressing public need when I decided to
become involved in the motivational
industry I didn’t have the money of a
doctored norman vincent peale
of Zig Ziglar of tony robbins and all
the other giants are there I had the
gift of gab so what I did was I trained
myself I disciplined myself to read
three to four books a week first I start
out a month now I’ve increased it with a
reading system that I have mr.
Washington said mr. Brown yes sir do you
want to make it yes sir first you’ve got
to develop your mind young man because
you don’t get in life what you want you
get in life what you are next you’ve got
to develop your communication skills
once you open your mouth you tell the
world who you are they said about Jesus
who obviously was an effective
communicator never speck a man the
reason that you’re here is because no
one can milk spiffed you and deliver a
sermon that can transform your life and
have you jumping up and down like you
crazy like TD jakes I’m home one day
looking at this video my daughter gave
me call he called me son
let me tell you something by the end of
that video and I’ve never seen my father
when that video got to the end I was
going to the television said daddy
I push reverses back the opposite day
now you think it’s up he just brought me
down at my beer dear old friend
oh by myself I’m looking around see me
to my CV that man crafted that message
you happy I’m cried like about a funeral
C as a gift you hear me yeah that’s a
gift
you your people uses word anointed this
is the only place I’ve ever seen
inapplicable is it his case that’s happy
to tell you I think I’m a good speaker
but this is this some bad what we got up
in here words cannot encompass the
symbolism of what we have the chance to
see up in here and yet he’s down to
earth
I mean down to earth where all these
little funny outfits he has I mean it
knocks me happy
[Applause]
and let me tell you what my daughter
said to me my daughter my oldest
daughter is on his advance team she said
you know what I was listening to Dion
last night and I think I’m gonna call on
Bishop Jake’s daddy – I said I wish you
would I beg you I’ll throw you out here
right now and break his leg – by calling
him daddy
now here’s I want you to write this down
write down take responsibility for your
life take responsibility for your life
now that’s a very important remember
what what would Bishop said last night
about Adam Adam when God asked him what
happened
Adam did not want to take responsibility
for what he had done
men have always tried to escape that so
the reason I’m telling you that we gotta
start owning our stuff as men write down
the next are and that is not only
responsibility but B with sauce for a
lot of men I don’t have I had it I’ll
give it if the women had that kind of
attitude the children would starve to
death the reason that they the reason
that they have some place to stay and to
lay their heads and have clothes on
their backs because the women decide I’m
gonna make it happen no matter what
and they’re resourceful my mama raised
seven without a man she cooked she
cleaned houses here’s something else
that will cause you to reach your goals
when you leave here write this down
reasons compelling reasons while you
here when you make this covenant with
God when you decide to live like a
conqueror when you decide to become more
successful to create wealth to be a
change agent in your community
what is it that can keep you on the
straight and narrow that will cause you
to keep your commitment to your
commitment I used to do door-to-door
sales with a man named Sam axe ride Sam
Axelrod was intrigued by me because when
he came to pick me up
he’d have to blow his horn I was
downstairs waiting for Sam when he came
around the corner and I’m like the men
that worked with him and other young
people when it got dark and Sam blew the
horn everybody ran to the station wagon
and they would do a headcount and they’d
say who’s here so everybody’s here
except less and they say hey laughs come
on now I’m not coming Sam why I haven’t
sold anything no one’s sold anything
less it’s a long run from Liberty City
to over town you got to pass a 20th
Street shot to the 14th Street game that
Egyptians will stop running soon I can’t
stop Sam until I sell something see my
reason for going door-to-door different
than everybody else most people out
there trying to make some extra money to
party on the weekend or to buy a new
outfit or new bicycle the reason that I
was working was to take care of my mama
the reason that I was working is because
I was working on Miami Beach with my
mother my mama used to fix the kind of
sweet potato pie that you couldn’t eat
with your shoes on
[Applause]
you have to take your shoes off so you
can wiggle your toes
and when we would go door-to-door
sometimes as late as 10 o’clock at night
I would not go to door who’s there would
you like to buy a nice working
television set no money down boy are you
crazy yes I am crazy I’m crazy about my
momma and I’m gonna take care of her and
I’m gonna sell a television set tonight
and it might as well be you
and after a while somebody who said come
on in they’re born that better be a good
set one of the reasons right down while
you are here at this man power
conference write down five compelling
reasons why you’re going to keep your
commitment to change your life keep your
commitment never to go back to the life
that you once live keep your commitment
to creating wealth for yourself to
taking care of your children to be more
responsible to manifest price in you in
your life in your community keep your
commitment to live a life of
contribution to keep your commitment to
be a conqueror and to act like that and
to have a third in dominion of
everything in your life one of those
reasons I got on one of my tapes his
life knocked your down trying to land on
your back because if you can look at you
can get up your reasons will help you to
get back up again there’ll be a rod and
staff to comfort you so you got to write
down five reasons on everything that
Bishop is saying and and Bishop Merritt
and all the different speakers and the
relationship seminar that brother Lewis
Greenup will do how you will incorporate
the principles from this man power
conference in your life and live them
and manifest them and support them now
here’s one sucker to the last thing let
us say together you got to be hungry
[Music]
mr. watch that mr. brown
what do you want to do well sir I’d like
to be a disc jockey mr. Brown have you
want to be a disc jockey you got to be
hungry what do you mean by that sir
you’ve got to be willing to do the
things that a others won’t do in order
to have the things tomorrow others won’t
have he said you got to work on yourself
develop yourself develop your mind you
don’t get it live what you want you get
in life what you are always striving to
get on top in life because it’s the
bottom that’s overcrowded you’ve got to
be hungry I said yes sir I’m hungry I
want to be a disc jockey sir he said is
that right I said yes sir he said start
listening to Paul Harvey start listening
to people who are effective
communicators be conscious of what
you’re saying and how you’re saying it
because how you express yourself once
you open your mouth you tell the world
who you are see yourself as a radio disc
jockey start working to get sponsorship
start creating the radio format that you
want start developing your personality I
said wait a minute sir I said I want to
be a disc jockey I don’t have a job yet
and then he quoted Whitney Young he said
it’s better to be prepared for an
opportunity and not have one then they
have an opportunity and not be prepared
you got to be hungry
you got to become a risk taker right
there done this job said if you’re not
willing to risk you can’t grow and if
you can’t grow you can’t become your
best and if you can’t become your best
you can’t be happy and if you can’t be
happy then what else is there you know
what I saw dr. Norman Vincent Peale 23
years ago but for 13 years I wouldn’t
take the chance for 13 years I was
living in my comfort zone for 13 years I
kept saying West Brown you can’t do that
Les Brown you can’t have that kind of
audience Les Brown you don’t have the
oratorical skills you don’t have the
knowledge you don’t have the money I
kept saying I can’t do that there’s an
old African proverb that says if there’s
no enemy within the enemy outside can do
us no harm
Bishop talks about the enemy in me if
there’s no enemy within how many of you
know that you’ve been your own worst
enemy raise your hands so you’ve got to
be willing to get outside your comfort
zone and no one could have told me that
the willingness to get outside of my
comfort zone the willingness to fail the
willingness to try to experiment the
willingness to take some chances the
willingness to do something I’ve never
done that in the last 12 years for 13
years and it
I convinced himself I couldn’t do it
then the last 12 years I’ve earned in
excess of 14 million dollars let me tell
you some 14 million dollars a good
garden and I help me haul and you can
make it through the winner and
Birmingham Alabama do you hear me no one
could have told me I have two books live
your dreams and it’s not over until you
win no one could have told me born in an
abandoned building on the floor labeled
educable mentally retarded no college
training no one could have told me I
would have produce five specials for
public television then I’ve had three
years ago the highest-rated fastest
cancelled talk show in the history of
television because I wouldn’t do those
conflict and controversy shows no one
could have told me I had no idea that I
can do what I’m doing right now let me
tell you what I know about you and I
don’t know you you got greatness within
you one a doctor huh doctor um kings
mentors dr. Howard Thurman said
something one night I was reading and I
couldn’t sleep
he said the ideal situation for a man a
woman to die if they have family members
standing around their bed praying with
him as they cross over he said but
imagine if you will being on your
deathbed and standing around you are the
ideas the dreams that have been given to
you by life the talents the gifts that
you’ve never nurtured that you never
develop the skills that you never did
anything with standing around your bed
looking at you with large angry eyes
saying we came to you only you could
have given us life and now we must die
with you forever and the question is if
you died now what dream
what ideas what talent what abilities
what skills what books what sermons what
seminars what businesses will die with
you
Myles Munroe said the wealthiest place
on the planet is not in the 40s where
they have oil in the ground it’s not in
South Africa where they have diamond
mines
he said the wealthiest place on the
planet is the cemetery because there
you’ll find dreams not pursue books
never written songs never saw sermons
never delivered businesses never erected
talents never nurtured skills never
develop you survive one out of 40
million sperms you were born to win God
wants you to be rich and wealthy and
successful and to live the abundant life
you must affirm that for yourself every
day so as you look at yourself and you
look at your life and you look at your
circumstances that you work on your
goals and your dreams here are some
things I want to give you write this
down
pull yourself to high standards see what
if Bishop TD jakes had decided when he
first received the idea of the manpower
conference that it could not be what if
he’d alive allowed that idea to die we
would not be here see many of you here
you are pregnant with some ideas I’m
telling you what I know I will leave
here this afternoon tonight in one hour
doing what I’m doing now what I
earn in excess of a hundred and fifty
thousand dollars I had no idea that I
had the capacity to do what I’m doing
right down you’ve got genius at you you
made and then lactis an image of God
you got greatness in you you have some
special stuff in you you showed up with
it so as you look at your life and you
decided become a risk-taker make it okay
to fail the experiment trial and error
repeat after me please no tests no
testimony yeah you’re gonna face some
hard times what’s the first thing they
say when you get on an airplane before
they take off fasten your seat belt
why because you will experience some
turbulence before you reach a
comfortable altitude
life was testing me when the man looked
at me and said you have prostate cancer
your tumor is too large to have the
surgery we’re gonna give you radiation
seed implants the most anybody’s ever
gotten looks 90 they gave me 238 I went
back three weeks ago they checked my PSA
level which indicates the presence of
cancer in your prostate area one to four
is normal beyond that is that you have
cancer and it’s spreading when I first
went a year ago it was six point one
when I went three weeks ago at Howard
University Hospital gave me an MRI it
was ten point five the guy said I’m
sorry to tell you this and so what do
you mean you’re in the same situation
that you were in when I when you came
here here’s something I heard at Christ
universal temple Church at a new
restaurant
Bishop TD jakes was praying for a lady
in a wheelchair and it’s odd how things
come to you when he finished praying for
the lady I’m sure there were some
questions were asked that weren’t verbal
that if the prayer worked why did she
get up and walk and what he said as he
was walking away
healing takes first place first he said
healing takes place first in the spirit
[Applause]
it didn’t matter about his numbers it
did not about their diagnosis judge not
according to appearances you must have a
faith the call for those things that be
not as though they were
now do you really believe see it’s one
thing to believe when you got money in
your pocket there’s one thing to believe
when your marriage is working out and
you got your health and your children
acting like they got good sense oh it’s
good to show the Lord is blessing me
it’s easy to believe then oh but when
you get that diagnosis say you ain’t
will be hello when you lose your job
when someone you thought you’ll be with
for the rest of your life said no we
can’t do this no more that’s when you
have to stand that’s when you have to
begin to live this faith and that’s not
on you that’s when you got to call on
something how do you let that mind be in
you you got to be out of your mind to
believe in spite of these numbers you
can still make it in spite of the pain
you feeling you can still come back
again you gotta be out of your mind
that’s right I’m in that Christ mind I
believe it and not when things are just
favourable not fair whether faith and
you’ve got to believe that when you’re
going out here with your ideas with your
products with your services and part of
being successful is you got to hold
yourself to high standards I used Bishop
Jake’s as a model his people take care
of you he’s thorough hold yourself to
high standards whatever you do there’s
no saying do not go where the path may
lead but go where there’s no path and
leave a trail
treat people with respect treat them the
way that you want to be treated Tony
who’s with me who’s been assigned to me
courteous respectful call several times
is there anything I can do for you can I
help you out
that’s first-class service if you decide
to provide first-class service
Johnny’s just a book called making
against the odds he said there’s no
defense against an excellence that meets
a pressing public need when I decided to
become involved in the motivational
industry I didn’t have the money of a
doctored norman vincent peale
of Zig Ziglar of tony robbins and all
the other giants are there I had the
gift of gab so what I did was I trained
myself I disciplined myself to read
three to four books a week first I start
out a month now I’ve increased it with a
reading system that I have mr.
Washington said mr. Brown yes sir do you
want to make it yes sir first you’ve got
to develop your mind young man because
you don’t get in life what you want you
get in life what you are next you’ve got
to develop your communication skills
once you open your mouth you tell the
world who you are they said about Jesus
who obviously was an effective
communicator never speck a man the
reason that you’re here is because no
one can milk spiffed you and deliver a
sermon that can transform your life and
have you jumping up and down like you
crazy like TD jakes I’m home one day
looking at this video my daughter gave
me call he called me son
let me tell you something by the end of
that video and I’ve never seen my father
when that video got to the end I was
going to the television said daddy
I push reverses back the opposite day
now you think it’s up he just brought me
down at my beer dear old friend
oh by myself I’m looking around see me
to my CV that man crafted that message
you happy I’m cried like about a funeral
C as a gift you hear me yeah that’s a
gift
you your people uses word anointed this
is the only place I’ve ever seen
inapplicable is it his case that’s happy
to tell you I think I’m a good speaker
but this is this some bad what we got up
in here words cannot encompass the
symbolism of what we have the chance to
see up in here and yet he’s down to
earth
I mean down to earth where all these
little funny outfits he has I mean it
knocks me happy
[Applause]
and let me tell you what my daughter
said to me my daughter my oldest
daughter is on his advance team she said
you know what I was listening to Dion
last night and I think I’m gonna call on
Bishop Jake’s daddy – I said I wish you
would I beg you I’ll throw you out here
right now and break his leg – by calling
him daddy
now here’s I want you to write this down
write down take responsibility for your
life take responsibility for your life
now that’s a very important remember
what what would Bishop said last night
about Adam Adam when God asked him what
happened
Adam did not want to take responsibility
for what he had done
men have always tried to escape that so
the reason I’m telling you that we gotta
start owning our stuff as men write down
the next are and that is not only
responsibility but B with sauce for a
lot of men I don’t have I had it I’ll
give it if the women had that kind of
attitude the children would starve to
death the reason that they the reason
that they have some place to stay and to
lay their heads and have clothes on
their backs because the women decide I’m
gonna make it happen no matter what
and they’re resourceful my mama raised
seven without a man she cooked she
cleaned houses here’s something else
that will cause you to reach your goals
when you leave here write this down
reasons compelling reasons while you
here when you make this covenant with
God when you decide to live like a
conqueror when you decide to become more
successful to create wealth to be a
change agent in your community
what is it that can keep you on the
straight and narrow that will cause you
to keep your commitment to your
commitment I used to do door-to-door
sales with a man named Sam axe ride Sam
Axelrod was intrigued by me because when
he came to pick me up
he’d have to blow his horn I was
downstairs waiting for Sam when he came
around the corner and I’m like the men
that worked with him and other young
people when it got dark and Sam blew the
horn everybody ran to the station wagon
and they would do a headcount and they’d
say who’s here so everybody’s here
except less and they say hey laughs come
on now I’m not coming Sam why I haven’t
sold anything no one’s sold anything
less it’s a long run from Liberty City
to over town you got to pass a 20th
Street shot to the 14th Street game that
Egyptians will stop running soon I can’t
stop Sam until I sell something see my
reason for going door-to-door different
than everybody else most people out
there trying to make some extra money to
party on the weekend or to buy a new
outfit or new bicycle the reason that I
was working was to take care of my mama
the reason that I was working is because
I was working on Miami Beach with my
mother my mama used to fix the kind of
sweet potato pie that you couldn’t eat
with your shoes on
[Applause]
you have to take your shoes off so you
can wiggle your toes
and when we would go door-to-door
sometimes as late as 10 o’clock at night
I would not go to door who’s there would
you like to buy a nice working
television set no money down boy are you
crazy yes I am crazy I’m crazy about my
momma and I’m gonna take care of her and
I’m gonna sell a television set tonight
and it might as well be you
and after a while somebody who said come
on in they’re born that better be a good
set one of the reasons right down while
you are here at this man power
conference write down five compelling
reasons why you’re going to keep your
commitment to change your life keep your
commitment never to go back to the life
that you once live keep your commitment
to creating wealth for yourself to
taking care of your children to be more
responsible to manifest price in you in
your life in your community keep your
commitment to live a life of
contribution to keep your commitment to
be a conqueror and to act like that and
to have a third in dominion of
everything in your life one of those
reasons I got on one of my tapes his
life knocked your down trying to land on
your back because if you can look at you
can get up your reasons will help you to
get back up again there’ll be a rod and
staff to comfort you so you got to write
down five reasons on everything that
Bishop is saying and and Bishop Merritt
and all the different speakers and the
relationship seminar that brother Lewis
Greenup will do how you will incorporate
the principles from this man power
conference in your life and live them
and manifest them and support them now
here’s one sucker to the last thing let
us say together you got to be hungry
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mr. watch that mr. brown
what do you want to do well sir I’d like
to be a disc jockey mr. Brown have you
want to be a disc jockey you got to be
hungry what do you mean by that sir
you’ve got to be willing to do the
things that a others won’t do in order
to have the things tomorrow others won’t
have he said you got to work on yourself
develop yourself develop your mind you
don’t get it live what you want you get
in life what you are always striving to
get on top in life because it’s the
bottom that’s overcrowded you’ve got to
be hungry I said yes sir I’m hungry I
want to be a disc jockey sir he said is
that right I said yes sir he said start
listening to Paul Harvey start listening
to people who are effective
communicators be conscious of what
you’re saying and how you’re saying it
because how you express yourself once
you open your mouth you tell the world
who you are see yourself as a radio disc
jockey start working to get sponsorship
start creating the radio format that you
want start developing your personality I
said wait a minute sir I said I want to
be a disc jockey I don’t have a job yet
and then he quoted Whitney Young he said
it’s better to be prepared for an
opportunity and not have one then they
have an opportunity and not be prepared
you got to be hungry
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