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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 let’s run you can’t
do that
let’s 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
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 helped behold and you can
make it through a 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 that 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 of dr. house dr. King’s
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 dreams
what ideas what talents
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 survived learned 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 as 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 did live 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
I’m doing now one hour our 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 now
you’ve got genius in 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
decide to become a risk-taker and 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 when you decide that you want
to commit your life to Christ
you’re going to at that time go through
on adulterated hell 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
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 was 90 they gave me 238 I went
back three weeks ago they checked my PSA
level which indicates the presence of
cancer 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
plays first he said healing takes place
[Applause]
it didn’t matter about his numbers it
didn’t matter about their diagnosis
judge not according to appearances you
must have a faith to call for those
now do you really believe see it’s one
thing to believe when you got money in
your pocket
it’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 so all
the Lord is blessing me it’s easy to
believe then all but when you get that
diagnosis say you ain’t gonna be hello
when you lose your job when someone you
thought you’ll be with for the rest of
your life say 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 Pharaoh
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
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 as first-class service if
you decide to provide first-class
service
Jonny’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
dr. 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 sought 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 scripture 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
every day it’s uh he just brought me
down to buy beer dear old friend all by
myself I’m looking around seeing me to
my CV that make crafted dad message you
see I suck it you hear me he that’s a
gift you your people uses word anointed
this is the only place I’ve ever seen
inapplicable is it his case happy to
tell you I think I’m a good speaker but
this is this a bad boy we got up in here
[Applause]
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
[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 mean you are but I will throw
you out here right now and break his leg
how about calling him daddy
now here’s I want you to write this down
write down take responsibility for your
now that’s a very important remember
what what 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 now you
know that we believe a lot in marches
let me tell you something here’s a March
I like to enroll you on I want a million
men to march to a mailbox to give
support payments just drop some support
payments in the mailbox
to children that you have helped to
create that you have been irresponsible
and you’re not taking care of
don’t give that money to the airlines or
the bus stations or the hotels send that
money to those mothers that are still
there dealing with and raising those
children on your stuff came out on them
where’s my daughter came here on her I
got a call five years ago from this
person here I happened to be at the
office late at night she I believe in
being open and being honest with you and
the call was tell them what you said to
me I said if you had a child in this
world that you were unaware of a
descendant in this world that you
unaware of would you or would you not
want to know what did I say you think
yes I would want to know
so I told I wanted to know and I said
send me some pictures she sent me some
pictures overnight I saw the smile I see
that man send one of my sons to pick her
up he drove her from Columbus to Detroit
he came in first aid daddy my sister’s
right behind me and we’ve been together
and I’m not ashamed of her I can’t
unscramble these Asian don’t want to but
I have to take responsibility that this
is my daughter and I take care of my
daughter she gorgeous
I’m trying to feather up she got a
little MiG’s I’m trying to find a
husband while we hear God Lakes up small
you can sue for non-support that’s why
well okay thank you baby give a round of
now so the reason I’m telling you that
we got to start owning our stuff as men
don’t make a big deal
can you imagine what will happen if a
million men decide to go to the mailbox
and just unexpectedly drop just what you
can’t don’t have to have a you know
return address in case they’re looking
for you you don’t have to put that on
there if you real behind your looks
today what I’m talking about I said be
no fool
now the only reason I can put a return
address on this because I have an MBA
somebody I got job there – you don’t
have a college degree I don’t
the MBA stands for mega baker cop so
anyhow join me then don’t tell me well I
don’t like her she got old man or she
don’t need my money or the children
don’t look like me I went to court and
the paternity suit with a friend of mine
Ronnie and he went to the judge just
want you paying child support he said it
babies don’t look like me just they
[Applause]
but as men see we can’t teach our sons
to be responsible if they don’t see us
being responsible if they don’t feel
that we care so don’t say well I don’t
have it get it that doesn’t let you off
the hook write down the next hour and
that is not only responsibility but be
resourceful 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 e
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 going to 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 that create wealth to be a
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 right Sam
axe Arad 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
today 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 the 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 are they’re trying to make
some extra money at a 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
and she’s working for a family called
the sidarsky family and one day when I
was outside raking the yard I came in
and my mother was on the floor on her
knees cleaning up some grease spots that
mrs. sidarsky had spilt some briefs my
mother was 56 at the time she had
adopted us when she was 40 and I came in
my mother had arthritis in her knees and
I could hear him moaning at different
times when she moved on her knees and
it’s Harlan Olien floor and I said mrs.
sidarsky can I do that for my mother and
you can have her do something else
she said if it’s all right with me me
and my mother said no son that’s all
right I said no mama it’s not all right
I don’t want you and then he means mama
please let me do it baby
and I helped my mother up and mrs.
sidarsky said made me go in the other
room and find that hat I was looking for
earlier and my mother went in the other
room
and I heard her clapping her hands I
said mama she said wet boy I said baby
why are you clapping your hands she said
don’t worry just keep on doing what
you’re doing then after a while mrs.
sidarsky said maybe maybe it’s in the
other room go look in there mama went in
the other room and sure enough she
started clapping her hands again Bishop
I said mama why are you clapping your
hands she said did not tell you to pay
attention to what you’re doing then at
that moment mrs. sidarsky came over she
said I can tell you why she’s clapping
her hands
I said why ma’am she said well because
when I have domestic workers looking for
something and they’re out of my view I
make them clap their hands to make sure
that they’re not stealing
I put the scrub brush down and I stood
up has excuse me mrs. sidarsky I don’t
mean any disrespect ma’am my mother
raised us to say yes ma’am and no ma’am
but my mother’s a Christian she would
never steal from you or anyone when my
momma talked about your children when
she talks to her friends she say my
children the sitarski children she loves
you and your husband and your children
she would never steal from you and she
just walked away
later that evening when we were riding
across the Venetian causeway I was very
quiet and my mother noticed it I was not
my bubbly self she said what’s wrong son
I said my mom I wish I was a man she
said boy you’re sixteen years old
you’ll be a man soon enough and I said
no mom
I want to be a man now because if I was
a man right now we would never have to
wear somebody else’s hand-me-down
clothes that their children no longer
want I’ll be able to buy clothes for my
brothers and sisters in you if I was a
man we would never have to eat anybody’s
leftover food that you cooked for
because I’ll be able to buy us groceries
if I was a man if I was a man my mother
no one would ever have you on your knees
cleaning of grease and they’d spill and
nobody nobody would ever ever make you
clap your hands because they think that
you’re stealing if I was the man mama
I’ll take care of you
she said mrs. sidarsky told you that
didn’t she I said yes ma’am so I was a
man you would never cook for anybody but
me 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
[Applause]
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 after a while somebody who said come
on in you’re born that better be a good
set what are the reasons right down
while you’re 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 Christ 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 advocate 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 try and land on your back because
if you can look up 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 in 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 manpower
conference in your life and live them
and manifest them and support them now
here’s one second to the last thing let
us say together you got to be hungry
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okay mister watch that mr. brown what do
you want to do well sir I’d like to be a
disc jockey mr. brown if 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’ve got to work on yourself develop
yourself develop your mind you don’t get
in life 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 started
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 so I started
working to develop myself and developing
my communication skills I expected to
have a radio program so I created my
format I started learning how to write
commercials and do jingles and then I
came to him one day I said okay mr.
Washington he said okay mr. Bao remember
you’ve got to be hungry you don’t have a
college degree you have no journalism
you have no broadcasting this is a very
crowded field it’s very very competitive
mr. Broun you’re going to face knowing
rejection every day but if you are
hungry enough the world will make a
place for you so I went to apply for a
job on my may beach to Milton butterball
Smith the program director hello mr.
butterball how are you sir my name is
les from Sur I liked a bit disc jockey
you have any journalism in your
background no sir you have any kind of
broadcasting experience no cell but I’ve
been training myself sir let me audition
for you let me show you how good I am
he’s I’m sorry we don’t have any job for
you how’s this courage I went back and I
told mr. Washington I said mr.
Washington they said no he said don’t
take it personally most people are so
negative they have to say no seven times
before they say yes he said you got to
be hungry go back again I said yes sir
come on mr. butterball how are you sir
my name is les brown so I like to be a
disc jockey weren’t you here yesterday
yes sir
didn’t I tell you no yesterday yes sir
that why you back today well sir I
didn’t know whether or not somebody was
laid off of somebody was fired sir no
one was laid off no one was fired I came
back the next day
hello mr. butterball how are you sir my
name is les Ron sir I like to be a disc
jockey I don’t know what your name is
weren’t you here the last three days yes
sir did not tell you to know the last
two days yes sir then why you back today
well sir I didn’t know where now someone
got sick or someone died sir
no one got sick no one died no one was
laid off a fire now don’t you come back
here again I came back the next day that
talking loud looking happy like I’ve
seen you for the first time
hello mr. butterball how are you
he looked at me to rage it says go get
sometimes you have to stoop before your
parka you got to sacrifice before you
rain so I became the errand boy for the
disc jockeys
I’ll go get their lunch in that dinner
and I stand in the control room and I
would not leave until they would ask me
to then pretty soon they trusted me to
pick up entertainers that came to town
entertainers like Diana Ross Supremes
The Four Tops and Gladys Knight I used
to drive them all over Miami Beach in
the disc jockeys big long Cadillacs I
didn’t have any driver’s license but
I’ll driving like a hedgehog
[Applause]
then one day I was at the radio station
and a disc jockey by the name of rock
and Roger was drinking while it was on
there he was slurring his words it was
obvious he was so inebriated he couldn’t
complete his show and there I was
looking at him from the control room one
walking back and forth young ready and
Allison drink grog great
phrase wrong item going to get him some
morbid asked me to
then pretty soon the phone ringing with
the general manager and I answered
brother said hello he said young boy
this is mr. Klein I said I know he said
a rock can finish his program I said I
know he said would you call one of the
other DJs in I said yes sir I hung the
phone up I said now he must be think I’m
crazy I call my mama and my girlfriend
Cassandra said y’all come out on the
front porch and turn up the radio I’m
I went in for about 20 minutes not
calling back I said mr. Klein I can’t
find nobody he’s a young boy do you not
have worker controls I said yes sir he
said gone and segue the records and
don’t say nothing here I said yes
[Applause]
I couldn’t wait to get behind that
turntable I put on a fast record I said
look out this is me lb Triple P let’s
try on your platter playing papa they’ll
remember for me and there will be none
after me therefore that makes me the one
and only young insanely love the mango
certified bona fide indubitably
qualified to bring you satisfaction and
a whole lot of action look out baby I’m
your love man I was hungry
check somebody town on your riding
there are people who come to this
country who can’t speak the language and
they hit the ground running because they
are hungry the people that are hungry
are willing to do the things that they
others won’t do in order to have the
things tomorrow others won’t have the
people that are hungry are willing to
make it okay to fail they’re risk takers
the people that are hungry are willing
to reinvent themselves to develop
themselves they know you don’t get in
life what you want you get in life what
you are the people that are hungry have
goals and practical steps are they
engage in day in and day out and here’s
the second to the last principle write
this down repeat out to me oqp only
quality people yes I want you to connect
with at least 10 men before you leave
here get their names addresses and phone
numbers 10 men who are dreamers 10 men
who want to do something with their
lives 10 men that you can get together
and make a covenant where two or three
are gathered in my name I will be among
you get together with 10 men who want to
develop themselves who want to grow who
want more out of life who see themselves
in the future doing better than they
have right now
10 men who decided that the manpower
experience will not just be an emotional
catharsis but they’re going to go out
and live the message that they’ve heard
preached from this pulpit up here Tim
men who decided to get serious about
their lives to make a commitment to
commit themselves in their ways and
their be
and their habits to achieve a better
life for themselves for their families
and the communities and the people that
they care about touch yourself with ten
men Wow that gives you hope when there’s
hope in the future that gives you power
in the present let me tell you what
happened scientists did an experiment
with rats and they dropped them in water
and they watched him and they timed it
and these rats swam for about 45 minutes
and drown and then they put in another
group of rats and they watched him and
just before they drown they took him out
and they let them rest then they put in
another group of rats including the ones
that had been in before and were saved
and the ones that were put in the second
time swam an hour and a half longer than
the group that had been put in there for
the first time with the hope and the
expectation that they might be saved
listen to me – power of assembly – power
of relationships one goose can fly 75
percent further and formation with other
geese than it can ever fly by themselves
it’s important you find some men here
who is serious all their people who just
came just to see but there’s some men
here who are serious who said I’m gonna
change I’ll never be the same again I
want God to use me in a special kinda
way you want to find those men see there
are two types of relationships there are
nourishing relationships and there are
toxic relationships most people when you
leave here and you face the world and
all of your negative toxic family
members and friends it will knock the
wind out of you that’s why you got to
have ten men to stay in you’re here so
when you break down and you’re gonna
break down when you go back to the fiery
furnaces of this world and you forget
everything you heard here these men can
stand with you when you have your
moments in the Garden of Gethsemane and
you need someone to Tarot with you these
men will pray with you when you find
yourself given wheat and losing control
you need someone to get you anchored
again and these ten men make this the
greatest man power conference ever
because of the relationship that you’re
going to develop with ten men who share
your vision for a better future can I
get your commitment on that and let me
share something there’s nothing as
powerful as a made up mind to human will
for Nelson Mandela you look at your
dream and think there against the odds a
man being incarcerated for 26 years with
every major of government in the world
supporting his government and his
suppression of his people in prison even
Joseph’s accomplishment is pale in
comparison to Nelson Mandela and to go
from prisoner to president I say there’s
a Nelson Mandela and everyone here
this proved and he didn’t do it bounce
off Jesus didn’t do it by himself he had
12 men who shared his vision the power
of the human will killer John Wesley the
power of the human will say jealous the
human will that force unseen the
offspring of a deathless soul can hew
away into any goal though walls of
granite intervene you will be what you
will to be let failure find its false
content of that poor poor word
environment but spirit scorns it and is
free it masters time in it conquers
space it cowes that boastful trickster
chance and big jets high wait
circumstance it uncrowned and feels a
servant’s place there is no chance no
destiny and no fate that can so convince
or hinder or control the firms are of a
determined soul gifts count is nothing
will alone is great all things give way
before it too soon or too late what
obstacle can stay the mighty force of
the sea seeking river in his course or
can cause the orb of eggs away while
each swirl borne soul knows it gets what
it deserves that the full spread of luck
the fortunate is he whose earnest
purpose never swerves whose slightest
action or inaction always serves
great egg I even death himself stand
still and waits and hours sometimes for
Donna Leslie how many of you have
children raise your hands I’ve got a set
of tapes you have a limited number at my
table called choosing your future
call it’s possible it’s necessary it’s
hard it’s worth it it’s done these safes
will help you to create wealth and I’m
sharing with you what I’ve learned that
enabled me in the last 12 years to
create a multi-million dollar
corporation but most importantly to
learn some practical steps on how to
begin to move myself from poverty to
where I am right now
see many of us have we knew better we
would do better
most people have fail it not because
they don’t have the talent but most
people don’t know that they don’t know
and they think they know and
consequently they’re not open to any new
information so we will be at our table
and I will sign these tapes but use them
with your children I have seven children
and all my children listen to tapes why
because we just can’t leave our
children’s mind out here – a lot of this
filth and garbage they call rap music
listening to profanity day in and day
out words are very powerful there’s an
old saying evil prevails when good men
and women do nothing so we’ve got to
give our children some other options and
don’t tell your children just listen to
the tape that won’t work no don’t give
these tapes of people that you care
about say listen to this they won’t do
it why because of ego ego means edging
God out no here’s what to get your
children in the car get on the
expressway and put the tape in see I can
say the same thing you say but because
they don’t know me
they’re here differently the hardest
people to reach other people that are
closest to you and then put the tape in
don’t say listen to it just put the tape
in and then after the editor runs out
flip it open for the second side of mine
and then pretty soon they’re started
listing themselves a lady saw me in the
hotel she said mr. Brown if I had known
you were here my god she said I would
have brought more people she said let me
tell you something I did what you said
my son was on drugs dropped out of
school he started listening to the tapes
he got off drugs
he got back in school came home one day
he got a decent haircut took his earring
she’s saying and I know you’re gonna be
in town I’ve brought my husband here so
I don’t know what your goals are but we
will have this and also those of you
that are involved in sales we have set
of tapes called selling your way to
greatness and now the tapes out there
that if you listened to these tapes I
guarantee you they change your life but
I’ll be at the table and I’m looking
forward to shaking your hands in
addition those of you that are
interested in motivational speaking
let me be your mentor let me help you
learn how to develop your communication
skills because that’s not what I have is
a gift I gave you a help form to fill
that out and get that back to us but
those of you that have not had your
prostate examination I want your
commitment to protect yourself and your
family by getting your examination and I
like to thank Bishop TD jakes for giving
me this opportunity to spend this time
with you and I want to share this with
you and my saying that this has been an
incredible experience for me last night
he said to me he said I want the people
don’t nobody else walk I said that’s my
life that’s why I wasn’t born just to
teach those who have how to get more III
know what it is to feel inferior I don’t
have any college training and I said
lord give me an opportunity said if you
help me get this home for my mother if
you help me change my life
I said I’ll help others like me I’m not
wearing any crown I’m still growing I’m
still developing what I’m like the woman
who said Lord ain’t what I want to be
ate what I’m gonna be and thank God I
sho ain’t what I was so I like to leave
this with you that I’m known by that my
mother used to love to hear me say and I
dedicate this to you into the Bishop
says simply this if you want to think
bad enough to go out and fight for it to
work day in night Boyd to give up your
time your peace and your sleep for if
all that your dream and scheme is about
it and life seems useless and worthless
without it and if you’re blindly
sweating
for and plan for and news are your
terror of the opposition for it and if
you simply go after that thing that you
want with all of your capacity sentence
of gasoline faith hope and confidence
and stern pertinacity if neither cold
poverty famish of gulf sickness of pain
of body and brain can keep you away from
the thing that you want if dogged and
grim you beseech endless headed with the
help of god you’ll get it this has been
missus mania brown’s baby boy leslie
Kevin Brown said go to the top because
you are armed and dangerous thank you very much
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 let’s run you can’t
do that
let’s 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
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 helped behold and you can
make it through a 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 that 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 of dr. house dr. King’s
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 dreams
what ideas what talents
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 survived learned 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 as 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 did live 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
I’m doing now one hour our 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 now
you’ve got genius in 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
decide to become a risk-taker and 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 when you decide that you want
to commit your life to Christ
you’re going to at that time go through
on adulterated hell 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
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 was 90 they gave me 238 I went
back three weeks ago they checked my PSA
level which indicates the presence of
cancer 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
plays first he said healing takes place
[Applause]
it didn’t matter about his numbers it
didn’t matter about their diagnosis
judge not according to appearances you
must have a faith to call for those
now do you really believe see it’s one
thing to believe when you got money in
your pocket
it’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 so all
the Lord is blessing me it’s easy to
believe then all but when you get that
diagnosis say you ain’t gonna be hello
when you lose your job when someone you
thought you’ll be with for the rest of
your life say 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 Pharaoh
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
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 as first-class service if
you decide to provide first-class
service
Jonny’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
dr. 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 sought 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 scripture 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
every day it’s uh he just brought me
down to buy beer dear old friend all by
myself I’m looking around seeing me to
my CV that make crafted dad message you
see I suck it you hear me he that’s a
gift you your people uses word anointed
this is the only place I’ve ever seen
inapplicable is it his case happy to
tell you I think I’m a good speaker but
this is this a bad boy we got up in here
[Applause]
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
[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 mean you are but I will throw
you out here right now and break his leg
how about calling him daddy
now here’s I want you to write this down
write down take responsibility for your
now that’s a very important remember
what what 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 now you
know that we believe a lot in marches
let me tell you something here’s a March
I like to enroll you on I want a million
men to march to a mailbox to give
support payments just drop some support
payments in the mailbox
to children that you have helped to
create that you have been irresponsible
and you’re not taking care of
don’t give that money to the airlines or
the bus stations or the hotels send that
money to those mothers that are still
there dealing with and raising those
children on your stuff came out on them
where’s my daughter came here on her I
got a call five years ago from this
person here I happened to be at the
office late at night she I believe in
being open and being honest with you and
the call was tell them what you said to
me I said if you had a child in this
world that you were unaware of a
descendant in this world that you
unaware of would you or would you not
want to know what did I say you think
yes I would want to know
so I told I wanted to know and I said
send me some pictures she sent me some
pictures overnight I saw the smile I see
that man send one of my sons to pick her
up he drove her from Columbus to Detroit
he came in first aid daddy my sister’s
right behind me and we’ve been together
and I’m not ashamed of her I can’t
unscramble these Asian don’t want to but
I have to take responsibility that this
is my daughter and I take care of my
daughter she gorgeous
I’m trying to feather up she got a
little MiG’s I’m trying to find a
husband while we hear God Lakes up small
you can sue for non-support that’s why
well okay thank you baby give a round of
now so the reason I’m telling you that
we got to start owning our stuff as men
don’t make a big deal
can you imagine what will happen if a
million men decide to go to the mailbox
and just unexpectedly drop just what you
can’t don’t have to have a you know
return address in case they’re looking
for you you don’t have to put that on
there if you real behind your looks
today what I’m talking about I said be
no fool
now the only reason I can put a return
address on this because I have an MBA
somebody I got job there – you don’t
have a college degree I don’t
the MBA stands for mega baker cop so
anyhow join me then don’t tell me well I
don’t like her she got old man or she
don’t need my money or the children
don’t look like me I went to court and
the paternity suit with a friend of mine
Ronnie and he went to the judge just
want you paying child support he said it
babies don’t look like me just they
[Applause]
but as men see we can’t teach our sons
to be responsible if they don’t see us
being responsible if they don’t feel
that we care so don’t say well I don’t
have it get it that doesn’t let you off
the hook write down the next hour and
that is not only responsibility but be
resourceful 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 e
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 going to 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 that create wealth to be a
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 right Sam
axe Arad 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
today 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 the 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 are they’re trying to make
some extra money at a 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
and she’s working for a family called
the sidarsky family and one day when I
was outside raking the yard I came in
and my mother was on the floor on her
knees cleaning up some grease spots that
mrs. sidarsky had spilt some briefs my
mother was 56 at the time she had
adopted us when she was 40 and I came in
my mother had arthritis in her knees and
I could hear him moaning at different
times when she moved on her knees and
it’s Harlan Olien floor and I said mrs.
sidarsky can I do that for my mother and
you can have her do something else
she said if it’s all right with me me
and my mother said no son that’s all
right I said no mama it’s not all right
I don’t want you and then he means mama
please let me do it baby
and I helped my mother up and mrs.
sidarsky said made me go in the other
room and find that hat I was looking for
earlier and my mother went in the other
room
and I heard her clapping her hands I
said mama she said wet boy I said baby
why are you clapping your hands she said
don’t worry just keep on doing what
you’re doing then after a while mrs.
sidarsky said maybe maybe it’s in the
other room go look in there mama went in
the other room and sure enough she
started clapping her hands again Bishop
I said mama why are you clapping your
hands she said did not tell you to pay
attention to what you’re doing then at
that moment mrs. sidarsky came over she
said I can tell you why she’s clapping
her hands
I said why ma’am she said well because
when I have domestic workers looking for
something and they’re out of my view I
make them clap their hands to make sure
that they’re not stealing
I put the scrub brush down and I stood
up has excuse me mrs. sidarsky I don’t
mean any disrespect ma’am my mother
raised us to say yes ma’am and no ma’am
but my mother’s a Christian she would
never steal from you or anyone when my
momma talked about your children when
she talks to her friends she say my
children the sitarski children she loves
you and your husband and your children
she would never steal from you and she
just walked away
later that evening when we were riding
across the Venetian causeway I was very
quiet and my mother noticed it I was not
my bubbly self she said what’s wrong son
I said my mom I wish I was a man she
said boy you’re sixteen years old
you’ll be a man soon enough and I said
no mom
I want to be a man now because if I was
a man right now we would never have to
wear somebody else’s hand-me-down
clothes that their children no longer
want I’ll be able to buy clothes for my
brothers and sisters in you if I was a
man we would never have to eat anybody’s
leftover food that you cooked for
because I’ll be able to buy us groceries
if I was a man if I was a man my mother
no one would ever have you on your knees
cleaning of grease and they’d spill and
nobody nobody would ever ever make you
clap your hands because they think that
you’re stealing if I was the man mama
I’ll take care of you
she said mrs. sidarsky told you that
didn’t she I said yes ma’am so I was a
man you would never cook for anybody but
me 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
[Applause]
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 after a while somebody who said come
on in you’re born that better be a good
set what are the reasons right down
while you’re 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 Christ 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 advocate 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 try and land on your back because
if you can look up 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 in 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 manpower
conference in your life and live them
and manifest them and support them now
here’s one second to the last thing let
us say together you got to be hungry
[Music]
okay mister watch that mr. brown what do
you want to do well sir I’d like to be a
disc jockey mr. brown if 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’ve got to work on yourself develop
yourself develop your mind you don’t get
in life 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 started
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 so I started
working to develop myself and developing
my communication skills I expected to
have a radio program so I created my
format I started learning how to write
commercials and do jingles and then I
came to him one day I said okay mr.
Washington he said okay mr. Bao remember
you’ve got to be hungry you don’t have a
college degree you have no journalism
you have no broadcasting this is a very
crowded field it’s very very competitive
mr. Broun you’re going to face knowing
rejection every day but if you are
hungry enough the world will make a
place for you so I went to apply for a
job on my may beach to Milton butterball
Smith the program director hello mr.
butterball how are you sir my name is
les from Sur I liked a bit disc jockey
you have any journalism in your
background no sir you have any kind of
broadcasting experience no cell but I’ve
been training myself sir let me audition
for you let me show you how good I am
he’s I’m sorry we don’t have any job for
you how’s this courage I went back and I
told mr. Washington I said mr.
Washington they said no he said don’t
take it personally most people are so
negative they have to say no seven times
before they say yes he said you got to
be hungry go back again I said yes sir
come on mr. butterball how are you sir
my name is les brown so I like to be a
disc jockey weren’t you here yesterday
yes sir
didn’t I tell you no yesterday yes sir
that why you back today well sir I
didn’t know whether or not somebody was
laid off of somebody was fired sir no
one was laid off no one was fired I came
back the next day
hello mr. butterball how are you sir my
name is les Ron sir I like to be a disc
jockey I don’t know what your name is
weren’t you here the last three days yes
sir did not tell you to know the last
two days yes sir then why you back today
well sir I didn’t know where now someone
got sick or someone died sir
no one got sick no one died no one was
laid off a fire now don’t you come back
here again I came back the next day that
talking loud looking happy like I’ve
seen you for the first time
hello mr. butterball how are you
he looked at me to rage it says go get
sometimes you have to stoop before your
parka you got to sacrifice before you
rain so I became the errand boy for the
disc jockeys
I’ll go get their lunch in that dinner
and I stand in the control room and I
would not leave until they would ask me
to then pretty soon they trusted me to
pick up entertainers that came to town
entertainers like Diana Ross Supremes
The Four Tops and Gladys Knight I used
to drive them all over Miami Beach in
the disc jockeys big long Cadillacs I
didn’t have any driver’s license but
I’ll driving like a hedgehog
[Applause]
then one day I was at the radio station
and a disc jockey by the name of rock
and Roger was drinking while it was on
there he was slurring his words it was
obvious he was so inebriated he couldn’t
complete his show and there I was
looking at him from the control room one
walking back and forth young ready and
Allison drink grog great
phrase wrong item going to get him some
morbid asked me to
then pretty soon the phone ringing with
the general manager and I answered
brother said hello he said young boy
this is mr. Klein I said I know he said
a rock can finish his program I said I
know he said would you call one of the
other DJs in I said yes sir I hung the
phone up I said now he must be think I’m
crazy I call my mama and my girlfriend
Cassandra said y’all come out on the
front porch and turn up the radio I’m
I went in for about 20 minutes not
calling back I said mr. Klein I can’t
find nobody he’s a young boy do you not
have worker controls I said yes sir he
said gone and segue the records and
don’t say nothing here I said yes
[Applause]
I couldn’t wait to get behind that
turntable I put on a fast record I said
look out this is me lb Triple P let’s
try on your platter playing papa they’ll
remember for me and there will be none
after me therefore that makes me the one
and only young insanely love the mango
certified bona fide indubitably
qualified to bring you satisfaction and
a whole lot of action look out baby I’m
your love man I was hungry
check somebody town on your riding
there are people who come to this
country who can’t speak the language and
they hit the ground running because they
are hungry the people that are hungry
are willing to do the things that they
others won’t do in order to have the
things tomorrow others won’t have the
people that are hungry are willing to
make it okay to fail they’re risk takers
the people that are hungry are willing
to reinvent themselves to develop
themselves they know you don’t get in
life what you want you get in life what
you are the people that are hungry have
goals and practical steps are they
engage in day in and day out and here’s
the second to the last principle write
this down repeat out to me oqp only
quality people yes I want you to connect
with at least 10 men before you leave
here get their names addresses and phone
numbers 10 men who are dreamers 10 men
who want to do something with their
lives 10 men that you can get together
and make a covenant where two or three
are gathered in my name I will be among
you get together with 10 men who want to
develop themselves who want to grow who
want more out of life who see themselves
in the future doing better than they
have right now
10 men who decided that the manpower
experience will not just be an emotional
catharsis but they’re going to go out
and live the message that they’ve heard
preached from this pulpit up here Tim
men who decided to get serious about
their lives to make a commitment to
commit themselves in their ways and
their be
and their habits to achieve a better
life for themselves for their families
and the communities and the people that
they care about touch yourself with ten
men Wow that gives you hope when there’s
hope in the future that gives you power
in the present let me tell you what
happened scientists did an experiment
with rats and they dropped them in water
and they watched him and they timed it
and these rats swam for about 45 minutes
and drown and then they put in another
group of rats and they watched him and
just before they drown they took him out
and they let them rest then they put in
another group of rats including the ones
that had been in before and were saved
and the ones that were put in the second
time swam an hour and a half longer than
the group that had been put in there for
the first time with the hope and the
expectation that they might be saved
listen to me – power of assembly – power
of relationships one goose can fly 75
percent further and formation with other
geese than it can ever fly by themselves
it’s important you find some men here
who is serious all their people who just
came just to see but there’s some men
here who are serious who said I’m gonna
change I’ll never be the same again I
want God to use me in a special kinda
way you want to find those men see there
are two types of relationships there are
nourishing relationships and there are
toxic relationships most people when you
leave here and you face the world and
all of your negative toxic family
members and friends it will knock the
wind out of you that’s why you got to
have ten men to stay in you’re here so
when you break down and you’re gonna
break down when you go back to the fiery
furnaces of this world and you forget
everything you heard here these men can
stand with you when you have your
moments in the Garden of Gethsemane and
you need someone to Tarot with you these
men will pray with you when you find
yourself given wheat and losing control
you need someone to get you anchored
again and these ten men make this the
greatest man power conference ever
because of the relationship that you’re
going to develop with ten men who share
your vision for a better future can I
get your commitment on that and let me
share something there’s nothing as
powerful as a made up mind to human will
for Nelson Mandela you look at your
dream and think there against the odds a
man being incarcerated for 26 years with
every major of government in the world
supporting his government and his
suppression of his people in prison even
Joseph’s accomplishment is pale in
comparison to Nelson Mandela and to go
from prisoner to president I say there’s
a Nelson Mandela and everyone here
this proved and he didn’t do it bounce
off Jesus didn’t do it by himself he had
12 men who shared his vision the power
of the human will killer John Wesley the
power of the human will say jealous the
human will that force unseen the
offspring of a deathless soul can hew
away into any goal though walls of
granite intervene you will be what you
will to be let failure find its false
content of that poor poor word
environment but spirit scorns it and is
free it masters time in it conquers
space it cowes that boastful trickster
chance and big jets high wait
circumstance it uncrowned and feels a
servant’s place there is no chance no
destiny and no fate that can so convince
or hinder or control the firms are of a
determined soul gifts count is nothing
will alone is great all things give way
before it too soon or too late what
obstacle can stay the mighty force of
the sea seeking river in his course or
can cause the orb of eggs away while
each swirl borne soul knows it gets what
it deserves that the full spread of luck
the fortunate is he whose earnest
purpose never swerves whose slightest
action or inaction always serves
great egg I even death himself stand
still and waits and hours sometimes for
Donna Leslie how many of you have
children raise your hands I’ve got a set
of tapes you have a limited number at my
table called choosing your future
call it’s possible it’s necessary it’s
hard it’s worth it it’s done these safes
will help you to create wealth and I’m
sharing with you what I’ve learned that
enabled me in the last 12 years to
create a multi-million dollar
corporation but most importantly to
learn some practical steps on how to
begin to move myself from poverty to
where I am right now
see many of us have we knew better we
would do better
most people have fail it not because
they don’t have the talent but most
people don’t know that they don’t know
and they think they know and
consequently they’re not open to any new
information so we will be at our table
and I will sign these tapes but use them
with your children I have seven children
and all my children listen to tapes why
because we just can’t leave our
children’s mind out here – a lot of this
filth and garbage they call rap music
listening to profanity day in and day
out words are very powerful there’s an
old saying evil prevails when good men
and women do nothing so we’ve got to
give our children some other options and
don’t tell your children just listen to
the tape that won’t work no don’t give
these tapes of people that you care
about say listen to this they won’t do
it why because of ego ego means edging
God out no here’s what to get your
children in the car get on the
expressway and put the tape in see I can
say the same thing you say but because
they don’t know me
they’re here differently the hardest
people to reach other people that are
closest to you and then put the tape in
don’t say listen to it just put the tape
in and then after the editor runs out
flip it open for the second side of mine
and then pretty soon they’re started
listing themselves a lady saw me in the
hotel she said mr. Brown if I had known
you were here my god she said I would
have brought more people she said let me
tell you something I did what you said
my son was on drugs dropped out of
school he started listening to the tapes
he got off drugs
he got back in school came home one day
he got a decent haircut took his earring
she’s saying and I know you’re gonna be
in town I’ve brought my husband here so
I don’t know what your goals are but we
will have this and also those of you
that are involved in sales we have set
of tapes called selling your way to
greatness and now the tapes out there
that if you listened to these tapes I
guarantee you they change your life but
I’ll be at the table and I’m looking
forward to shaking your hands in
addition those of you that are
interested in motivational speaking
let me be your mentor let me help you
learn how to develop your communication
skills because that’s not what I have is
a gift I gave you a help form to fill
that out and get that back to us but
those of you that have not had your
prostate examination I want your
commitment to protect yourself and your
family by getting your examination and I
like to thank Bishop TD jakes for giving
me this opportunity to spend this time
with you and I want to share this with
you and my saying that this has been an
incredible experience for me last night
he said to me he said I want the people
don’t nobody else walk I said that’s my
life that’s why I wasn’t born just to
teach those who have how to get more III
know what it is to feel inferior I don’t
have any college training and I said
lord give me an opportunity said if you
help me get this home for my mother if
you help me change my life
I said I’ll help others like me I’m not
wearing any crown I’m still growing I’m
still developing what I’m like the woman
who said Lord ain’t what I want to be
ate what I’m gonna be and thank God I
sho ain’t what I was so I like to leave
this with you that I’m known by that my
mother used to love to hear me say and I
dedicate this to you into the Bishop
says simply this if you want to think
bad enough to go out and fight for it to
work day in night Boyd to give up your
time your peace and your sleep for if
all that your dream and scheme is about
it and life seems useless and worthless
without it and if you’re blindly
sweating
for and plan for and news are your
terror of the opposition for it and if
you simply go after that thing that you
want with all of your capacity sentence
of gasoline faith hope and confidence
and stern pertinacity if neither cold
poverty famish of gulf sickness of pain
of body and brain can keep you away from
the thing that you want if dogged and
grim you beseech endless headed with the
help of god you’ll get it this has been
missus mania brown’s baby boy leslie
Kevin Brown said go to the top because
you are armed and dangerous thank you very much
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