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there I go people ask me all the time
what is the secret to success and I
always tell them what the short version
is you got to have a 22 inch biceps and
you got to be able to kill predators
with your bare hands and the other you
have to be able to travel back in time
to save the human race and of course you
got to have this charming Austrian
today since this is a seminar and a kind
of a conference about success I think it
can give you the long version here and
the long version is that I actually
always had five rules and everything
that I did always use those five rules
and those five rules helped me to become
successful in various different areas
and I think I believe that those rules
can be applied to almost anyone and
everyone you don’t need to be a
bodybuilding champion you either need to
want to be a Governor of California or
to be an action here or anything like
that if you want to excel in whatever
you do those rules are for you it’s that
simple
now I have to tell you right off the top
that I always was very intense as a kid
Aradia was very intense and it was very
hungry I always wanted to be the best I
always wanted to be number one I always
wanted to get to the top I never
believed in just getting by now I have
nothing against people that just want to
get by because I think there are many
roads to happiness but I think that we
all here like to be successful and we
are driven so that’s why those rules
apply to you so my first rule is find
your vision and follow it you see I
think it’s the most important thing that
we have a very clear vision of where we
go a goal where do we go because you can
have the best ship in the world you can
have the best cruise liner but if the
captain does not know where to go that
ship will drift around the world and out
there that sea and we’ll never end up
anywhere and this is exactly the way it
is in real life if you don’t have a goal
if you don’t have a vision you just
drift around
and you’re not gonna be happy this is
why it is so important to have that
vision now I created that vision in
Austria because I grew up after the
Second World War
Austria right along with Germany lost
the Second World War
thank God and the problem was that
everyone was so depressed because they
lost the war that there was alcoholism
everywhere there was of course
depression there was a terrible economic
situation there was famine there was
starvation and all of those things and
also it was kind of a little place and
narrow I felt kind of I wanted to get
out of there I wanted to escape and I
couldn’t see myself really do work there
in the stadia to work in the factory of
the work on the farm although even to
follow my father’s footsteps and to
become a police officer I couldn’t see
that either Sam I think that’s what my
parents wanted me to do they wanted me
to become a police officer and to marry
a girl by the name of Heidi and to have
a bunch of children and to run around
like the fun trap family in The Sound of
Music
but that’s not what I saw this was the
vision of my parents but not mine and
luckily one day in school I watched a
documentary about America and I found
myself I knew exactly that is where I
wanted to end up I wanted to be in
America everything that I saw in that
that commander just loved everything was
so big I remember the tall skyscrapers
the monstrous bridges the giant freeways
filled with beautiful cars
the huge jet liners movie stars Muscle
Beach and all of those things I could
not wait to get there the question was
just how do I get there how do I get the
America I mean it was not a common thing
to do
way back in the 50s no one had the money
to travel or anything but one day I was
fortunate enough to see a magazine and
that magazine showed me the path to
America and it was a bodybuilding
magazine and on the cover bust is very
muscular guy that was standing there
like Hercules with the Hercules outfit
his name was rich Park this rich Park
was undercover and I remember the cover
said mr. universe become
Hercules star I read the article as fast
as I could
learning about how he grew up in Leeds
in England poor in how he trained five
hours a day every single day and trained
and trained and trained and lifted
weights and then he finally became mr.
Great Britain and then he became mr.
universe at any one a second mr.
universe title in the third mr. universe
title and then all of a sudden he landed
in Rome in cinecittà doing Hercules
movies and yeah he made millions of
towers and there’s this money he took he
bought himself a gymnasium chain in
South Africa and he became a successful
gymnasium owner and as I read I became
more and more certain about my own
future as I read this story I was so
excited so interest that I knew exactly
that I wanted to become another reg Park
I know he laid out the blueprint for my
life basically I could see myself I
could visualize myself clearly to be a
champion on that same stage where he
wanted mr. universe and then to move to
America then get into movies and then
become rich and famous I had that vision
very clearly laid out I was so happy
that I knew exactly where I was going
from that moment down everything that I
did no matter how hard I had to work or
how much I had to struggle it didn’t
matter
it was a wonderful joy right because I
knew what the purpose was and I found my
passion the simple truth is if you don’t
have a vision if you don’t have a goal
if you don’t see your future laid out in
front of you you’re just floating around
without a purpose and I think that the
numbers speak for themselves
this is why so many people around the
world are unhappy with their jobs I mean
in America 74 percent of the people hate
their job and would like to change jobs
to think about that that means that only
a quarter of the Americans love the
life’s work I mean that is a very
depressing statistic I always smiled
when I worked no matter how hard I work
I always had a great time no matter what
I did it didn’t matter what was in
bodybuilding
or it was in the movie
so it was as governor I remember in the
pumping iron days people asked me in the
gym all the time why are you smiling all
the time why are you so happy you have
to lift 50 tons of weights you have to
Train five hours a day I mean I look at
the other bodybuilders faces and lifters
faces and they look kind of depressing
they look sour they’re miserable that
they have to lift weights you don’t look
miserable you look happy and I’d tell
them always they say I smile because I
know exactly that every rep that I do
there every set that I do every weight
that I lift I get one step closer to
turning that vision of mine into reality
and becoming that mr. universe I could
not wait to lift another 500 pounds in
the squats I could not wait to do
another thousand sit-ups I could not
wait to do bench press more bench press
and more curls until I couldn’t move my
arms anymore because I knew that every
rep got me closer to standing on that
stage as a champion as a matter of fact
when I lifted weights I didn’t really
feel like I was lifting weights I felt
like I was lifting a trophy over my head
each time I lifted and they’ll have all
those bodybuilders around me and
thousands of people screaming and I tell
you that this vision didn’t just help me
in bodybuilding it helped me in
everything like I said I remember in a
movie business there was many times
stunts that they had to do we I got hurt
that was in pain in agony and had to do
it over and over again I remember one
incident specifically on Conan the
Barbarian there there I was crawling on
all four on rocks over rocks and gravel
holding my sword right in front of me
and as I was crawling the camera
followed me and it was around 30 feet
that the crawlin does rocks and it’s
gravel and eventually after 10 takes my
elbows my knees started bleeding and
hurting and the director came to me
sheepishly and said to me says do you
mind if we do another take I need a
close-up of you and I said him no I
don’t mind at all I said going to as
many takes as you want this is none item
to do that because I know you’re in pain
you’re bleeding I said no no I don’t
feel any pain I say the only thing I see
is is the finished scene I see the
finished scene of me crawling on all
four with my sword in the front crawling
up and sneaking up behind salsa tomb the
main villain of the Conan movie that
killed my parents and rising up behind
him and cutting his head off that’s what
I see remember crush your enemies see
them driven before you and hear the
lamentation of their women so this is
why because I visualized that scene this
is why I did not feel that pain I did
not care if I was bleeding on my knees
because I know that pain is temporary
but the film is permanent and I
explained that to the director so this
is why I try to tell you always discover
your vision and the rest will follow now
my second my second rule is never ever
think small if you’re going to
accomplish anything you have to think
big you have to go and shoot for the
stars
the biggest challenge most people have
is because they think small and the
reason why people think small and why
did you choose small little goals is
because they’re afraid to fail they know
that if you shoot for big goal then the
chances of failing are very high and
they’re afraid of failing is one of the
most common things why people are frozen
it by they cannot make a move in life
because they’re scared of failing I say
to myself hey I’m not worried about
failing because that’s part of life
you’re not gonna be going win everything
and how far can you fall look at this
this is the ground that’s as far as I
can fall and you know something that the
only time you really consider the
failure is if you fall and you don’t get
up but if you get up you never consider
the failure so I never considered myself
a failure I always consider myself a
winner
even though FL every so often
I always got up and I always move
forward this is the important thing I
never had any patience of course to
submit a thinking small
because in German we ever saying ven
Xiang tension if that means that if it
was something think of all out and do it
well and this just not just the case in
bodybuilding I didn’t just want to be a
bodybuilding champion I wanted to be the
greatest bodybuilder four times I wonder
if the most muscle the the most most of
all times the most definition I wanted
to win the most trophies the most World
Championship titles I just wanted to be
the best and the same is also in movies
I didn’t just think about being in
movies know I wanted to be a movie star
I wanted to have above the title
building I wanted to become the highest
paid entertainer I basically wanted to
be another John Wayne what’s wrong with
that
and then famous in politics I didn’t
just want to go and be in politics and
enter a race for City Council I mean
let’s be honest they said sound right
Schwarzenegger City Council no come on
no the events once again mayor no it had
the Bishwas nigga running for governor
but not just any governor but governor
of the greatest state in United States
of California that was the important
thing I give you an example of bigger
thinking big when I became governor I
wanted to rebuild California’s ancient
infrastructure you see America has been
living off infrastructure that was built
in the 50s and 60s and it drives me
absolutely insane that America hasn’t
started rebuilding that infrastructure I
mean we haven’t invested in new roads or
in new transit and school so an energy
or anything like that for decades the
number of cars that we have now in
America of four times as many as we had
in the 60s so therefore we should be
having four times as many freeways four
times as many tunnels four times as many
bridges and orders but we don’t so this
is why I wanted to get our act together
and do the upgrading least in California
so when I talk about infrastructure I
didn’t really want
just fix roads and fix and close some
holes and the roads I wanted to build
massive freeways on top of freeways I
wanted to build the first high speed
rail in the United States I wanted to
build more bridges and more tunnels more
on ramps and off ramps I wanted to see
literally trains everywhere well there
was no excuse for Californians to get
stuck in traffic and there was no excuse
really to send your kids in overcrowded
classrooms and schools and it was also
no excuse that Los Angeles has a
hundred-year-old
sewage system that’s shitty I thank
Houston first of course some of the
legislators looked at me like I was
absolutely insane and I told him this
vision they were willing to spend maybe
five billion dollars which of course is
petty cash and compared to what my
vision was but some politicians of
course had a hard time to see the big
picture because they didn’t really ever
travel outside California so they
haven’t really seen big infrastructure
they haven’t really seen big
infrastructure all over the United
States or maybe in Asia and China and
Korea or in Brazil or in European
countries or here in Australia maybe so
they haven’t seen that and then of
course there are other politicians that
simply don’t have a vision of the future
past the next election which is a common
problem politicians have all over the
world so it is it was my job as governor
to motivate them and to take them and to
see the traffic change in Los Angeles
and to see the overcrowded classrooms
and to see all the problems that we have
but I kept pushing and pushing and a
pump them up enough that eventually they
saw the big picture and eventually
Democrats and Republicans came together
and we invested sixty billion dollars to
rebuild California’s infrastructure the
biggest investment of our state in 50
years so that’s what we did because we
had a big vision and everyone bought in
on this big vision so remember never
think small think big my third rule is
ignore the naysayers I think it is
natural that when you have the big
vision and big dreams and you have big
cores that people are gonna say around
you
I don’t think he can be done I think
it’s impossible or no I tell you hear
this all the time but I want to tell you
don’t ever let them stop you from
dreaming and from shooting for the big
goal because eliminate just simply those
words no impossible and it can’t be done
I mean in each one of my careers when
someone said it’s impossible I heard
it’s possible when someone said it can’t
be done I heard it can be done and when
someone said no then I heard loud and
clear
yes so this is what I believed in I am a
big believer of what Nelson Mandela said
he said it always seems to be impossible
until someone does it and that’s exactly
what it is and I wanted to beat that one
that does it I wanted to break the new
records and I wanted to do something
that no one else has ever done so I
think that’s what you need to do don’t
ever be worried about that someone
hasn’t done it just think about how many
times my career would have stopped my
career would have ended if I would have
listened to the naysayers I mean it
started right away when I was 15 years
old and I became a bodybuilder right and
if that happened I said I want to be a
world champion in bodybuilding I want to
be mr. universe they immediately said
are you crazy you in Austria in Austria
you can become a ski champion or a
bicycle champion or something like that
but bodybuilding is an American sport
forget about it it’s nuts ten men I
wanted to move to America they said
again it’s impossible you will never be
able to do that you’re from the money
you open yourself and then men I wanted
to go into show business
after I won 13 World Championship titles
in bodybuilding I said I want to be like
reg Park I want to be a Hercules I want
to get into movies well I tell you when
I met those agents and managers and
studio executives their reaction was Oh
[Laughter]
Arnold is so funny ha ha you want to be
what a leading man oh come on I mean
look first of all let’s start with your
body look at your body I mean you’re
over developed you’re gigantic
you’re like a monster are you kidding me
do you know what the news thing the new
trend is it’s little guys like Dustin
Hoffman Al Pacino Woody Allen
those are the new sex symbols don’t you
get it and then your accent oh it gives
me the chills just listening to your
German
come on now I mean oh god I mean it’s
like it’s scary when you talk it’s
unbelievable I mean have you ever Arnold
I mean b-series have you ever seen an
international movie star with the German
accent it doesn’t happen forget about
that and then your name what is it
Watson schnitzel or something like that
yeah I can see that name already up
there in a billboard yes and people are
gonna storm the field and the movie
houses because Watson is starring in a
movie oh yeah I can see that already so
that’s what they said they said to me
says look forget about that you a nice
guy I mean your bodybuilding champion
might envy you you open up a gymnasium
or health food stores something like
that we can help you with that then let
me get you on the side some little parts
like maybe playing a bouncer I mean with
your body perfect or maybe a wrestler
oh I have a good idea with you action
the Nazi officer now that’s really great
for you I call my buddies over at
Hogan’s Heroes I mean they would
probably use someone like you so that’s
what I said
imagine that everywhere I turn they said
no it won’t happen is not gonna happen
and forget about it
luckily I did not listen I did not
listen because I knew if I worked hard
enough and I worked as hard as I did in
bodybuilding five six hours a day that I
will make it that I could prove them
wrong and I started working very hard I
started taking acting classes English
classes speech classes dialog classes
even accent removal classes I ran around
all day saying lines like a fine wine
grows and a bind because you see the
Austrians and Germans have a difficult
time with that B and with the W and with
the F we get it all mixed up so it was a
fine wine grows on a vine or the sink is
made out of his ink and all those kind
of lines is it a window when you know
something all of a sudden I got a little
break in the early 70s I remember all of
a sudden I got a TV show a little part
then another little part and then all of
a sudden I got a phone call from Lucille
Ball to be in her special happy
anniversary and goodbye which was with
odd Connie I had the six minute scene as
an Italian masseur that most people
don’t know the difference between an
Italian accent in the German accent so I
got away with my German accent but I
played this Italian Monsieur and I was
so delighted and then right after that I
got that guest starring role in streets
of San Francisco with Michael Douglas in
Cowell Malden and then pumping out and
stay hungry and then of course I landed
the big role as Conan the Barbarian so
finally I got the big big break and you
know what was so interesting about it
was that soon as we were finished with
the Conan movie we were out there and a
promotion to him and the director said
that the press conference the directors
John Milius he said if we wouldn’t have
had Schwarzenegger with those muscles we
would have had to build one now think
about that before it was this huge
obstacle to have this party and all of a
sudden the director says if we wouldn’t
have had Schwarzenegger with his body we
would have had to build one now water
turn around and then when I did
terminator James Cameron said which was
really great he said the Albie Backlund
became one of the most famous movie
lines in history because of Arnold’s
crazy accent because he sounded like a
machine when he talks
[Applause]
so as you see everything that the
naysayers said was a liability became an
asset and the same was also in my
political career when I ran for governor
they immediately said I shouldn’t do it
it is a big mistake it won’t happen I
will lose and all of those kind of
things in the rest of course is history
the bottom line is if I would have
listened to the naysayers my career
would have ended when I was 15 years old
I will be still yodeling in Austria in
the Alps and I would not be talking here
the day to you and the reason why I’m
here today and talking to you is is
because I did not listen to you can’t
though it’s impossible or no so I just
recommend you very strongly ignore than
they say us the fourth rule is work your
ass off
nobody ever stumbled upon success by
accident except maybe the guy who found
gold in California but don’t ever think
that you can be that guy I mean India
you never want to fail because you
didn’t work hard enough I always
believed no stone unturned work your
butt off that’s what I always believed
no matter what you do work work work I
remember Muhammad Ali one of my great
heroes had a great line in the 70s when
he when he was asked how many sit-ups do
you do he said I don’t know because I
start counting only when it starts
burning when it starts burning that’s
when he starts counting you see that’s
what makes you a champion it doesn’t
matter in what area you in no pain no
gain the bottom line is one of my rules
which is work your butt off if you don’t
apply that rule all the other rules
won’t mean anything I mean it drives me
absolutely nuts when people say I don’t
have time to work out have me heard that
many times I don’t have time to work out
or I have worked so hard all day I’m
tired
I cannot work out anymore oh I cannot
read another book oh I cannot improve
myself
oh I don’t have time or I work so hard
that I cannot really improve my business
or I cannot grow as a person or any of
those things what the hell are we
talking about here I mean today is 24
hours you sleep 6 hours so you have 18
hours left I mean I know that some of
you out there that say well wait a
minute I sleep actually 8 hours but
let’s just sleep faster ok you know I
mean let’s not get bogged down with this
stuff yeah listen man I came to the
United States
I remember that I trained 5 hours a day
every day and I was managing a
construction business that was a
bricklayer and I went to college also
and I took acting classes from 8 o’clock
at nights to 12 o’clock midnight all
that in one day every day I did that I
did not worry about it I knew that at 24
hours and they didn’t want to waste one
single hour because I believed of what
Ted Turner said who is one of the great
entrepreneurs who start at CNN and so on
he said early to bed early to rise work
like hell and advertise so that’s what I
believe
just remember you can’t climb that
ladder of success with your hands in
your pockets you must work your ass off
[Applause]
and my fifth and last rule is don’t just
take give something back leave your mark
in the world I believe that we all have
an obligation to do something for our
community something for our state
something for our country we must serve
a cause that is greater than ourselves
because we all know that in the end we
will be judged not by how much we made
but the how much we give ever since
America greeted me with oak moms I’ve
had this sense of responsibility and I
felt obligated to give something back to
America because I know that everything
that I have accomplished is because of
America if it’s my bodybuilding career
if it is my show business career my
political career the money that have
made from a great family that I have all
of this is because of America but I have
to recognize the fact that America did
not become the land of opportunity in
this great country by itself no in
history people work tirelessly in
America people fought and people died to
make it the land of freedom and
opportunity in the land of liberty so
now it is our responsibility if we want
to keep it the number one country in the
world to work for that and to give
something back to that country and it
doesn’t matter if you’re in America if
you in Australia or if you’re in China
or Finland Japan or in Italy it is the
same thing you all have to give
something back to your country and by
the way you’re from now I love the words
of my father-in-law Sargent Shriver who
started the Peace Corps the Job Corps
legal aid to the poor during the Kennedy
and during the Johnson administration he
was the number one public servant and he
always inspired me to become a public
servant he was one of my heroes he said
at Yale University had a commencement
speech he said to the students tear down
that mural tear down that mirror that
makes you always look at yourself and
you will be able to look beyond that
mirror and you will see the millions and
millions of people that need your help
and I saw those millions and millions of
people
and this is why I tried to take every
opportunity that I could to give
something back I started training
Special Olympians people did Wendell
actually handicapped to help them with
weightlifting in powerlifting I became
the International powerlifting coach and
the torch bearer for Special Olympics
then later on I joined the Simon
Wiesenthal Center to fight prejudice so
we don’t have the things happening again
as we had during the Second World War
during the Nazi Reich and I joined also
the President’s Council on Fitness I
became the chairman on the President
Bush from 1990 to 1993 to be the
chairman and to promote health and
fitness in all 50 states that travelled
all 50 states
I started after-school programs for the
most vulnerable children for inner-city
children to make them be able to say no
to drugs no to gangs and no to violence
and to say yes to education and yes to
life
and every single time I reached out and
I gave something back I felt fantastic
nothing made me happier I would rather
play chess with an eight-yard kid in an
after-school program or play golf around
the Gulf with a special Olympian then go
down another red carpet of a movie
premiere and have nothing against movies
but to give something back to me is more
important than just to think about
myself eventually the joy of giving back
was so great that I decided to become a
public servant full-time and to turn my
back actually walk away from my career
as an actor after finished promoting
Terminator 3 I jumped into the race into
the governor’s race in California and I
ran for governor and even though my
friends advised me not to do that they
said are you crazy Arnold don’t you
understand that you would lose now
there’s 2030 million dollars a movie
that you’re getting paid and they will
only pay you a hundred and seventy eight
thousand dollars as governor a year or I
didn’t care because I knew that all the
money that I’ve made and to be in that
position the first place to make this
money is because of America
it was time to give something back so I
became governor and I didn’t even take
the hundred and seventy eight thousand
dollars I give it back to the taxpayers
because it was petty cash it’s the last
thing I needed and I can tell you that
those seven years were the most exciting
and the most rewarding and the most
gratifying years of my life to work all
day long
to solve problems and to serve the
people was absolutely heaven it was the
best job I’ve ever had but they also
knew that eventually it’s going to come
to an end and after two terms it did
come to an end but when he came to an
end the one thing that didn’t come to an
end and was not finished was my desire
to be a public servant industry of the
people and this is why I continued to
work for Special Olympics that’s why I
continued to work on fighting my fitness
crusade and traveling around the world
to promote health and fitness and this
is why I continued to support
after-school programs and we even
started the Schwarzenegger Institute at
the University of Southern California to
continue to inspire students and leaders
around the world to find solutions to
complicated issues and to give back and
to make the world a better place
but I tell you that I was very fortunate
that I had great heroes I great heroes
that I could look up to and I mentioned
two of them Muhammad Ali and Sargent
Shriver my father-in-law but there’s
other great heroes like gorbachev reagan
mandela great leaders like Mother Teresa
Chancellor Kohl and Churchill and the
list goes on and on I mean those people
had such an impact in the world
single-handedly they’ve changed the
world I mean if you think about just
Gorbachev I mean this man every time I
meet him I’m in awe I mean he grew up on
the communism and he rose from the
bottom of the ranks straight up to the
top he came president of the Soviet
Union one of the most powerful people in
the world and he was the lead of the
Communist Party I mean he wasn’t a top
position he realized that the system was
broken now what do you do when you had
the top leader of the Communist Party
and he realized that the system that
communism doesn’t work well you know
what he did he dismantled communism
think about the courage that it takes I
mean the guts daily things to do that
think about the Gorbachev completely
transformed his country with glass toast
to give his people for the first time
freedom intends to perestroika by
reforming Russia’s economy he didn’t
wait for the next president he didn’t
complain he simply said if not me who
and if not now when
so I feel very strongly all of us need
to have an embrace that kind of a spirit
we all can create change whether it is
now neighborhood or in our local schools
or in our country he can’t be big but it
can also be as little as just going to a
school kid that is problems reading and
teaching that kids are the read or how
to do math we don’t have to just work on
me
we should also work on we not just me
but also we remember that to lead a
truly full life you must give back you
must leave the world
better place than you found it because
the bottom line is it is up to us I mean
those rules that have given you
important rules but giving back is one
of the most important rules I guarantee
you that if you follow all of those
rules you will have many victories to
celebrate and you will leave you know
you work and you will have extraordinary
kind of a record and you will leave a
legacy behind that you can be proud of
so I want you to remember those rules
have a vision think big
ignore the naysayers work your ass off
and give back and change the world
because if not us who if not now when
thank you very much thank you
[Applause]
give it up for the saddle swatch nigga
obviously you’ve had so many different
careers out of all those careers what
would you say has been the most
rewarding career for you
I think definitely being a public
servant has been the most rewarding but
I would say that it is actually a very
difficult question to answer because I
think that it depends on what stage of
my life I was in when I was 15 years old
to me I didn’t think about being a
public servant and it was 15 years old
or thought about rules how can I become
the most muscular man and the biggest
guy the most powerful guy with the most
symmetry and the most muscles and win as
many championships as possible that was
the most important thing to me I only
thought about that I didn’t yeah how I’m
gonna get there that’s what I wanted to
do I was willing to train all day long
in order to get there but then later on
when I won all those championships in
bodybuilding I said myself it’s time to
move on and to take on another challenge
something that is very risky to do where
you could fail I always tried to pick
things that they were very risky and
they were hard to climb but they always
shot for big course and I decided that I
want to be you know in the movies and I
wanted to be a leading man and I saw
myself is like another Clint Eastwood or
you know Charles Bronson or John Wayne
or something like that and you know I
that was the most important thing for me
at that point and keep still in great
shape and all that but then later on as
I said there came a time and I said to
myself wait a minute I have gotten all
this opportunities and this this
wonderful life and America’s made it
possible that I could have gone to any
other country in the world and I
wouldn’t have even had a fraction of
that success that I have to give
something back we have to keep America
for future generations the number one
country so I started thinking one more
about giving something back eventually I
fell in love with the idea of being a
public servant that you know I jumped
into the governor’s race and at that
point that became the most important
thing you know so it’s it’s a you know
like right now to me to fight not only a
fitness crusade which by the way we have
won
because for four decades we’ve been out
there talking about weight training and
the importance of weight training and at
that time people said you’re gonna get a
heart attack you’re gonna get
muscle-bound you’re gonna get become
stupid if you workout you’re gonna
become a NASA sis you’re gonna turn gay
and all those kind of things that they
were worried about but today look at
this today there’s a gymnasium in every
single hotel all over the world in every
military base every police station every
fire station every University every
sports team has a weight rooms and
they’re relying on weight resistance
training even in the hospitals they have
to rehab rooms in the center’s whether
the weight resistance training so our
crew set was successful and we’re going
to continue this crusade but the same
thing is now thank you the same thing is
now with the environmental crusade I
think it is extremely important and I’m
very proud of what Australia is doing
with the environment I think that
California and in Australia has share
many ideas and they’re doing similar
things which is really great but there’s
a lot of countries that are not doing it
in this vial start at the r20 which is
an organisation and environmental
organization if things regional
governments together form all over the
world because I believe that those
movements only can be successful if you
fight them on a grassroots level from
the bottom up rather than from the top
down like they’re trying to do by
creating a kyoto number two 3d and all
those things there’s a very challenging
things to do but they should continue
working on that but in the meantime we
should do a ground movement because I
think all great movements have been
successful on a grassroots level if it
is the entire apartheid movement the
independence movement in India if it is
the civil rights movement in America or
the you know all of those movements have
been successful because they’re from the
bottom up and that’s what we have to do
also be done by environmental movement
bring Democrats and Republicans and the
Green Party and all the different
parties together and together we will be
able to push back and reduce our
greenhouse gases once and for so we
don’t have that many people at health
health risk because
is millions of people every year dying
because of the pollution and I think
Bill Gates once said that often we learn
more from our failures and successes in
the sense that often when we’re
successful we party and celebrate when
we fail we perhaps ponder and reflect in
your life would you say you’ve learned
from birth or
successful failure from more oh I think
that it is important that you learn from
both I think that is good like for
instance I learned from success when I
had my first success in bodybuilding I
realized the rules that I shared with
you today those five rules
I applied those rules and that’s what
made me successful so I applied those
rules again in entertainment and in my
acting profession and again I was
successful and then I applied it again
when I ran for office and got into the
political arena and again it was
successful so I learned that those are
the different rules that I can apply and
I will be successful if apply those but
the same is also with failure the key
thing is is that when you fail that
you’ve recognized why did you fail where
did you fall short and you learn from
that and the important thing is like I
said that you get up again then you
never stay down you always get up in the
minute I’m you fail you get up and you
know that’s why I love that word I’ll be
back because you got to get up I’ll be
back I’ll be back and they come back and
you come back over and over again
[Applause]
it went from Hollywood to politics and
now politics back to Hollywood you know
some people would say acting and being a
politician is the same thing well I mean
first of all I think in both professions
it’s important that you kind of think
about the people because if you do
movies it doesn’t make any sense
to just make movies that please you but
no one in the audience is gonna go and
see it I mean you need the fans to go
and see the movies to love your movie so
therefore you have to do the movies for
your fans rather than for yourself like
for instance with terminator we knew
right away that
you looked at that story that it was an
international story that had an
international appeal and that audiences
it didn’t matter in Africa or if you’re
in Australia or in Austria in Germany it
makes the difference where they would
like this story because it dealt with
action it dealt with a futuristic kind
of a theme you know it was good destroys
evil it was about machines versus human
beings all of those things that people
enjoy seeing the same was with Conan the
same was with twins with the baby did a
comedy I always thought about what was
the audience like to see what do they’d
like to see not just in America but all
over the world now it doesn’t mean that
you’re always successful because there’s
many times that you also make a mistake
and you think that this movies gonna be
great it goes right under the toilet
that happens too but the important thing
is that you always keep the audience in
mind the same is as a power addition you
have to think about what is what is it
that the people want you to do rather
than just what you want to do now of
course you have to lead but if for
instance the people need infrastructure
and you know that the kids go to
overcrowded classrooms like we talked
about in California or you need to
rebuild the infrastructure
transportation infrastructure then it
would be a mistake not to do that then
that’s why I insisted I knew in the
polls it was very clear in California
that the people who are upset about
getting stuck in traffic every day for
hours and hours that they wanted to for
us to build additional freeways
additional lanes additional on ramps and
off ramps and tunnels and bridges and
all those things and that’s exactly what
we did and they were happy about that so
I think it is important in both cases
that we do the people’s work rather than
for ourselves and of course the acting
profession what you learn in acting is
is that you connect with the audience
that you speak from your gut and not
just out of the mouth not that I have
just diarrhea out of the mouth but you
have actually crafted every word come
with meaning and that’s very important
in acting so you connect and you make
the scene believable where the same is
in politics as you know that empower
leagues a lot of times people just talk
and it’s just words
but people don’t buy in they don’t
believe it because someone just reads it
off the script or from the teleprompter
something like that and it doesn’t come
from the heart so I think it’s very
important that you connect with the
people and you make it believable that
you believe in it and that you are
passionate about it and then you can
draw the people in and make them
understand your vision and sell your
vision that’s what leadership is all
about the US Constitution if it was ever
to be changed that a foreign-born could
run for president is that something
you’d consider well I recommend it very
strongly when they talk now about
immigration reform as they were the
first thing that you should change an
immigration reform is dead law I mean I
you know I I’m actually just joking with
them it that the bottom line is I think
it’s an outdated law that we have in in
in America but I have been able to do
everything that it did because of
America so I’m not about to complain
about the one thing that I can’t do you
know that’s just the way it is and
there’s a reason why in America they
have that law and I think eventually it
will be changed it will be brought up to
date if it would be happening in my life
then I I don’t know but I think it needs
to be changed and not for me but I mean
just in general I think it would be a
good idea to have a foreign-born also be
able to run for president so it’s just
something that needs to be changed good
give me a hand okay
so let’s take some questions from the
audience let’s start right over here far
away with you question when you’re
lifting you don’t actually see the
weight you actually see a trophy so I
was wondering you have any other
techniques that you can share with us
that you use to stay conscious of that
like for example I know some people
meditate and stuff like that I was
wondering if you do anything like that
well I did in the seventies some
meditation but I think that when it
comes to actually being a becoming a
bodybuilding champion the most important
thing is
you are inside your muscles when you
train that you really feel the bicep
when you do your curls then you really
feel every rep that you do when you do
your bench press or your flies or your
poor lowers and so on
or that you really feel inside down to
the bone your calves when you do your
calf raises there’s so many people that
just are in the gym and they just go and
they go up and down and they think and
to think about something then they go
and they check their iPhone while
they’re exercising I mean I’m telling
you it’s not gonna happen it’s not gonna
happen because the muscle needs
absolutely full concentration it’s that
simple that’s the way you get the pump
to be inside and to go and concentrate
and do visualize at all times when you
train your Delta it’s that huge gigantic
deltoids and if you to visualize that
the deltoids are growing and then the
chances of them growing is much greater
and if you start looking at an iPhone
while you’re doing your exercise so it’s
not gonna happen so this is why I always
believe very strongly
they’re gonna go to the gym I want to go
and focus 100% on my training in the gym
focus but when I walk out of the gym I
didn’t want to talk about it anymore
it’s over because there’s some people
did like to talk about it and talk about
it and talk about the same thing over
and over it burns me out if I would do
that I like to going to the gym and then
I look at the equipment and then I say
okay the days arms and legs so I’m gonna
go and concentrate and then then I see
those machines and I start walking
around and they go from one set to the
next step to the next step then the next
set and just it’s like a machine to go
from one thing to the next and to really
keep training hard and to not just do
your 10 reps but to do as many reps
until you fail because it’s the only way
that you know how far you can push
yourself is if you’re willing to fail
and every set and that is how I grew
this is how I became the champion and
there is no shortcut to that whatsoever
no matter what training principles you
use if you lose higher reps or low reps
any of those things you got to go and
just why we’re on bodybuilding Annie
today’s bodybuilders how do you how do
you see that compared to when you were
dominating the sport well I think that
it leg in every sport people are getting
better all the time in bodybuilding I’ve
seen since my days bodybuilders have
gotten more defined they’ve gotten
bigger the bodies has developed more I
think because we have better machines
now we have better food supplements
better techniques in all those kind of
things that have developed the better
gyms in in general and so on I think
that especially in the amateur division
in bodybuilding extraordinary work has
happened all over the world there is now
a hundred and eighty countries to the
members of the International Federation
it’s the biggest Sports Federation in
the world we’re very proud of that we’re
literally a few a step or two away from
getting into the Olympic Games so
there’s great great work I think in a
professional bodybuilding side I think
that that has gone overboard I believe
that those guys have gotten too big they
are not able to perform and do the
posing that they ought to do with this
kind of development they ran out of
steam on a stage
they cannot flex long enough I think
they’re taking certain things that is
taking them in the direction where the
stomach is hanging out and they’re you
know certain growth hormones and stuff
like that so I think that this has
backfired because we could see that the
public’s interest has reduced when man
got over developed in the cartoonish way
where it’s not any more beautiful where
the all of a sudden looks at kind of
like power lifters with huge legs and
they’re walking around like that and
they can put the arms down say it gets
away from their whole ideal of what
bodybuilding is all about so I think
that the reason is because in
professional bodybuilding they’ve paid
so much attention to give him points for
size but not points for performance and
for posing if they will give more
points for posing and for symmetry
rather than just for size you will see
that change very quickly you want to see
guys running around in their suits like
they know they there’s something kind of
weird going on there but you will have
guys that look like you know like in the
old days Steve Reeves when he spent
people saw Steve Reeves on the beach
they said oh my god they can’t look
score just look at that Herculean body
they were in all of that and many other
body builders like that but the day the
way they waddle around you know it’s
like it’s like to me I think we went
overboard in professional bodybuilding
and now we have to rein it in and it’s
totally solvable I mean there’s no
problem with that I think just in the
next few years we have to rein it in and
just change the judging system a little
bit yeah let’s go over here question
over the side your greatest
accomplishment and what is something you
are yet to achieve that you have not yet
I want to be smarter I want to learn
everyday I want to win the environmental
crusade and I cannot wait until I get
the news instead of hearing that we have
increased our greenhouse gas emissions
by six percent over the last year I want
to hear that we have now stabilized and
then eventually hear that we are
reducing our greenhouse gases like
you’re doing here in Australia or like
we’re doing in California where we make
a clear commitment to reducing our
greenhouse gases by 25% at a certain
time in California for instance by the
year 2020 and then 85% but the year 2050
now the I my goal is to motivate the
rest of the world to do exactly the same
thing and I will not stop until this is
accomplished so that’s one of the things
that I want to accomplish name of the
thank you for being here
pumping iron used to train in law you’re
the only one used to train without any
shoes on there’s any particular reason
used to training bare feet
no there was it was it’s one of those
things that I just felt always good when
I could grab with the toes the floor
when I did squats or the the block when
I did my calf raises it was just a habit
and I everyone always said you’re gonna
drop something on your feet and it’s
gonna you’re gonna destroy your feet and
order things why I’m still standing so I
mean nothing was nothing was destroyed I
just always liked working out barefoot
and today adults today when I even when
I work out at home and I’ve carpeting in
my gym at home but I work out with
slippers so it was just it was just a
habit then and I always just loved it so
there’s no specific reason at all okay
now the question I decide thanks so much
for you talk mr. Schwarzenegger if there
was one habit or routine or one thing
that you remanded recommend that people
do daily that’s going to increase their
success what would that be I think Reid
I think the most important thing is and
and I can tell you that only because
when I was governor I worked from
morning to night having one meeting
after the other
every hour was another meeting one time
it was about prison overcrowding then it
was about law enforcement local law
enforcement then it was about education
then it was about the university system
then it was about the welfare programs
and about the health care system and on
and on and on and to me the capital of
California became the greatest classroom
that I could ever imagine I learned
because every time you have a meeting
you sit down and get the briefings and
you being brought up-to-date kind of
like what
issues about and so on and so you learn
and you learn in the learn I tell you I
felt so rich every day to learn that
much and to absorb it like a sponge I
felt like if every human being would
have the opportunity to learn because so
many people kind of stopped they go to
university they get their college degree
then they get a job and from then on the
growth stops they always say that we are
the most intelligent let me get out of
high school or when we get out of
college and then it stops so why not
take on if even if it is fifteen minutes
that they imagine that you’d spend
fifteen minutes a day to study history
and because the day on the internet it’s
so easy to find all the things that the
Roman history the German history the
European history the British history the
African history in or discount and
eventually after 365 days of this 15
minutes studying imagine the kind of
knowledge that you gather in the next
year they say I want to study the
history of music and you get into
classical music in this study about back
and about Beethoven about Mozart and all
those different guys just a little bit
not that you have to become a genius in
it but just study a little bit of it you
imagined it how rich and knowledge you
become and how much you understand about
everything and said to me it is always a
shame and I see that people do not
improve or as I said in one of my rules
work your ass off I said that people so
many times say oh I am exhausted I work
so much I don’t have the time anymore to
read another book I don’t have the time
to join a seminar like this or a
conference like that where you learn
something I mean this is the best
investment you can make to sit here and
to sit and to listen to those kind of
motivational speeches and so on I have
read so many of those books I have
listened to so many of this motivational
kind of seminars and listened to the
tapes I think they’re fantastic because
they pump you up they build you up and
you get out there and you say okay I’m
ready to fight and I’m ready again to
climb into to be the number one and so
on so I think I would say make an effort
to grow as a person
all the time stay hungry that’s Russian
hello first up on behalf of the audience
I’d like to thank you so much for coming
down here really appreciate it
secondly I’d like to know when you were
first starting out how did you all the
most important things you did to get the
arnold schwarzenegger brand as an
individual noticed and stand out from
the crowd I think there’s not something
that you work on I mean I’ve never even
thought about the brand when it was 20
years old
it was training every day I remember
when I was in the military I had my
dumbbells and my barbells and the side
of the tank I was a tank driver
I took the tools out of the side of the
toolbox and Abood Mutombo the blades the
way it’s India and the bars and then the
collapsible bench I put in there and
then they went a manoeuvre and at 6
o’clock or at 7 o’clock at night when we
were finished I putted all my equipment
that would work out to three hours a day
so I mean when everyone was tired and
fell asleep I will be working out so to
me I always concentrated on just working
hard and that’s how I became the
youngest mr. universe ever at the age of
20 so when you then do that and you win
Miss Universe between E and then you win
the second mr. universe dad will be 21
and then the third with 22 and missed
the world and mr. Olympia and it goes on
and on but I’m was 28 I won 13 worlds
bodybuilding championships so
automatically you develop a brand and
people start paying attention to you so
then from then on anything and
everything that I did people paid close
attention to that because they wanted to
know the see follow through with that
kind of discipline and that kind of a
vision and all the things he does and so
everything started adding and adding and
adding and you know so I developed that
brand and I was very fortunate that
because of the work that they’ve done
that no matter what country I go in you
know I have a great popularity people
have appreciated the movies people have
appreciated my promotion for
bodybuilding and for fitness and health
and also my environmental work that I
did and also being a public servant and
the
we stood they’ve done and they repeat
the lines you know if you go to Arabic
countries they say I’ll be back in their
way and you know in Austria they said
their way and over here in Australia
their way so say I mean people
appreciate this work so that’s how he
slowly built the brain but they never
really thought about oh I’m gonna go now
and build my brand or I’m gonna leave a
certain legacy so I was always too busy
just to do the work then they worry
about their or all fat but I mean you
know it’s it’s a the key thing for me
always was that if if people look at me
I think there’s one word that should
come to my mind that their mind this is
joy
I always said great joy what I’m doing
like speaking here the day – you did to
me this is not a job to me I am having a
great time to stand in front of you and
actually just on that someone said to me
earlier can you ask Annie what does he
do to relax is it true that you have an
army tank and that’s your idea
relaxation yes it’s like the tank that I
used in the austrian army i eventually
brought it to America and it’s an m47 a
patent that a tank that America gave to
various different countries all over
Europe no no this is a that’s not the
m47 from the kids from the Twain is not
from the fifties my bankers from the
fifties but there was a good Drive
I was a good driver but they know I have
a great time in where the tank was
restored and there has new tracks if
there’s a new engine it you know runs 35
miles an hour and I take it out on the
weekends and yeah we have a range it’s
called the melody ranch where they used
to do western movies in a valley near
Hollywood and I always take the kids in
the city kids that they have stay in
after-school programs every day five
days a week as a reward I take them
sometimes skiing the mammoth that they
fifty of them at the time and teach them
and get them to ski lessons in order or
I take them over to drive tanks all day
long with Ryder and I’ll be the tanks
and so as a reward and we all have a
but the test is not to say that on the
end when people said what do you do for
relaxation you work hard and do all
those things I really because I love the
work that I do I relax when I work I
don’t have to go and say oh my god and
now I’m so wiped out now I got to relax
I love the work they do when I am and a
movie set you know and I get asked to
come to the set and to act out a scene
I’m having the greatest time or you get
in the car and you do a chase scene I
mean how much more fun can you have or
they’re going to get the big constant
say okay kill Motown a few people if you
stand there you kill a few people I mean
you know it’s you you can you can be a
child and you can play out your
fantasies and all these things look at
that look at this equipment I mean it’s
it’s it’s a lot of fun so I have a good
time when I do and I had a great time
when I was governor and had all those
great meetings and you know going on a
campaign trip and sometimes you have to
do fundraising it gets a little bit more
tedious of course but I mean it’s it’s
it’s so fun I cannot complain so I don’t
need to relax so anything like this I
relax right now I’m relaxing standing
here and and schmoozing with you here I
relax completely I’m a 10 so anything
like that I don’t need to go afterwards
and leafy and say oh now I have to
collapse and I can you know lie down or
something like that
very good let’s take one more question
over here
good evening mr. Schwarzenegger I’ve
I’m representing the Arnold fans calm a
group that you know a bit about and but
first of all I’d like to say how much of
an inspiration you’ve been in my life
and helping me achieve my goals and I’m
sure a lot of people in here as well
thank you thank you you son-of-a-bitch
[Applause]
very nice now I understand that there
are a couple of scripts being written
and they’re trying to race to have been
finished one of them is the new Conan
movie and the other is Terminator 5 and
the question I would like to ask is out
of those two characters the Terminator
and Conan what are the two what is the
one that you hold dear most your heart I
don’t think there’s one character even
with all the other movies like for
instance I’m getting this script in two
weeks from now about you know the sequel
to twins which would be called triplets
and so to me that character was a really
fantastic character so you can’t say
what the Terminator character is more I
like more than this character or the
Conan character I like less than the
Terminator character something like that
there’s all you know great character
isn’t like I said I was very fortunate
to be able to play those kind of
characters that have an international
appeal to me that’s the most important
thing in the I’m very happy that the
studio’s want me to be in Terminator 5
from the star as the Terminator which we
start shooting in January and that they
want me to do King Conan and you know do
that play that role and also to do
another twins movie so you know I feel
very proud of that and I feel very happy
about that
and and I’m looking forward to English
and he just on the movie twins obviously
that was one of the first ones when you
went from being an action hero to
getting into comedy is it true that used
I didn’t take any money upfront to to go
on that movie well I you know I always
felt that they had a very intense side
about myself and you know kind of like a
machine or like playing out the action
hero but it also had a funny side to me
and I always you know wanted to act out
the funny side and but people felt like
okay I know they’re so successful with
the action genre why would we give him
another movie why not just give him
action movie after action movie after
action movie but I wanted to do a comedy
so I went to the studio executive the
Tom Pollock and Universal and I said
look there is a great idea that Ivan
Reitman the guy did Ghostbusters has
developed for me it’s a comedy it’s
called twins and I would do the movie
you don’t have to pay me I take the risk
just give me ownership of the part
ownership of the movie and so Ivan
Reitman and Danny DeVito and I took 40%
of the movie and didn’t take any salary
none of us and so we took the risk well
it happened to be that the movie made a
huge amount of money and and you know
the movie only costs 16 million dollars
to make because we did we took no salary
so because that would have been a
another huge amount of money there so
they save that and then we own 40% of
the movie and of course the money keeps
coming and keeps coming to me there was
one of those great great decisions but
you know the movie was stunt they were
they were shocked when I said I think no
money but then in the end when we asked
for the 40% you know and said we would
not sign the deal unless we get the 40%
I remember Tom Pollock into the studio
executive he then it was a funny thing
when he came around the desk and he
pulled out his pockets and he just bent
over like that
he says go ahead do it to me and huh and
and sure enough that’s exactly what we
so I daresay for triplets is a different
deal it’s a good deal yeah let’s have
two more questions okay one over here hi
I just like to say you’re one of the
most inspiring people to me and I’m very
grateful in this moment right now my
question is who was your favorite
leading lady
my favorite leading lady you know I
think yeah Jamie Lee Curtis probably was
my favorite leading lady you absolutely
it was Jamie Lee Curtis and also Lonnie
Anderson when we did the chain Mansfield
story for television she was another one
of this great big women I mean I was
very fortunate even with Sharon Stone
you know I mean she’s really tough to
work with but I had a great time with
her when we were shooting in Mexico we
had one incident where we there was a
blow-up on a set because we had this
scene where she’s supposed to attack me
and then I crap around the throat and
apparently that she had an incident in
her real life kind of like where she was
strangled or something like that and
said freaked her out and she’s threw a
fit and orders and we basically just
explained to her why didn’t you tell us
that ahead of time maybe rehearsed
you know we then would work around that
bit on the theory that the scene can be
rewritten yeah I don’t have to grab you
on the neck I can grab you somewhere
else
with great pleasure and and so so so
basically we worked it out and I said
and everything went fine then and we it
worked around those problems in a gentle
way but you know those those things
happen but I mean I worked with real
tough actresses but I think that the
most fun and because I also knew her
from Sun Valley from skiing was Jamie
Lee Curtis and she did an extraordinary
job with that with that part and I think
there was one of the reasons why I
always was looking forward doing a
sequel to two True Lies but as you know
with James Cameron it’s his movie and
he’s a much more complicated guy and now
he’s involved you notice Avatar movies
and so on
so so which I wish him good luck with
that and you know he has been extremely
successful and has the most successful
movies in a history of motion pictures
so he’s a terrific director final
question final question for Annie
Ayana big fan longtime fan of your
movies and also read your book and big
fan of your journey as well I guess
you’ve sort of touched on it through
throughout the talk tonight and even
before about tackling climate change and
doing all sorts of great things I guess
going back to your first rule about the
big picture the vision I guess where
what is your vision now that after
you’ve achieved so many great things
bodybuilding movies politics what’s your
vision for the future and how does that
sort of fit in with your your five rules
or the first rule well I think I touched
on the my vision of the environmental
crusade and so on but I think that one
of the important things for me was to
create the Schwarzenegger Institute at
the University of Southern California in
order to inspire students and to teach
students to be great leaders in the
future I think that you have to really
pay close attention to our students
make sure that they are the ones that
really are going to be the leaders of
the future that we educate them the
right way and that we teach them the
important things and when they become
leaders in the public sector how not to
get tied up with being a conservative or
being a liberal you can have your
philosophy but then the end that is so
important and so much more important
they be do the people’s work not the
party’s work because we have public
servants and not party servants that is
the biggest problem in politics that
people feel obligated to serve their
party if it’s the right wing or the left
wing or the middle of whatever I think
we have to serve the people they are
ultimately the ones that deserve the
service they are paying the taxes and so
this is what I want to teach future
leaders leaders to make decisions based
on what is best for the country
what is best for the neighborhood for
their state what’s best for the people
ladies and gentlemen please give a huge
hand for miss Arnold Schwarzenegger [Applause]
there I go people ask me all the time
what is the secret to success and I
always tell them what the short version
is you got to have a 22 inch biceps and
you got to be able to kill predators
with your bare hands and the other you
have to be able to travel back in time
to save the human race and of course you
got to have this charming Austrian
today since this is a seminar and a kind
of a conference about success I think it
can give you the long version here and
the long version is that I actually
always had five rules and everything
that I did always use those five rules
and those five rules helped me to become
successful in various different areas
and I think I believe that those rules
can be applied to almost anyone and
everyone you don’t need to be a
bodybuilding champion you either need to
want to be a Governor of California or
to be an action here or anything like
that if you want to excel in whatever
you do those rules are for you it’s that
simple
now I have to tell you right off the top
that I always was very intense as a kid
Aradia was very intense and it was very
hungry I always wanted to be the best I
always wanted to be number one I always
wanted to get to the top I never
believed in just getting by now I have
nothing against people that just want to
get by because I think there are many
roads to happiness but I think that we
all here like to be successful and we
are driven so that’s why those rules
apply to you so my first rule is find
your vision and follow it you see I
think it’s the most important thing that
we have a very clear vision of where we
go a goal where do we go because you can
have the best ship in the world you can
have the best cruise liner but if the
captain does not know where to go that
ship will drift around the world and out
there that sea and we’ll never end up
anywhere and this is exactly the way it
is in real life if you don’t have a goal
if you don’t have a vision you just
drift around
and you’re not gonna be happy this is
why it is so important to have that
vision now I created that vision in
Austria because I grew up after the
Second World War
Austria right along with Germany lost
the Second World War
thank God and the problem was that
everyone was so depressed because they
lost the war that there was alcoholism
everywhere there was of course
depression there was a terrible economic
situation there was famine there was
starvation and all of those things and
also it was kind of a little place and
narrow I felt kind of I wanted to get
out of there I wanted to escape and I
couldn’t see myself really do work there
in the stadia to work in the factory of
the work on the farm although even to
follow my father’s footsteps and to
become a police officer I couldn’t see
that either Sam I think that’s what my
parents wanted me to do they wanted me
to become a police officer and to marry
a girl by the name of Heidi and to have
a bunch of children and to run around
like the fun trap family in The Sound of
Music
but that’s not what I saw this was the
vision of my parents but not mine and
luckily one day in school I watched a
documentary about America and I found
myself I knew exactly that is where I
wanted to end up I wanted to be in
America everything that I saw in that
that commander just loved everything was
so big I remember the tall skyscrapers
the monstrous bridges the giant freeways
filled with beautiful cars
the huge jet liners movie stars Muscle
Beach and all of those things I could
not wait to get there the question was
just how do I get there how do I get the
America I mean it was not a common thing
to do
way back in the 50s no one had the money
to travel or anything but one day I was
fortunate enough to see a magazine and
that magazine showed me the path to
America and it was a bodybuilding
magazine and on the cover bust is very
muscular guy that was standing there
like Hercules with the Hercules outfit
his name was rich Park this rich Park
was undercover and I remember the cover
said mr. universe become
Hercules star I read the article as fast
as I could
learning about how he grew up in Leeds
in England poor in how he trained five
hours a day every single day and trained
and trained and trained and lifted
weights and then he finally became mr.
Great Britain and then he became mr.
universe at any one a second mr.
universe title in the third mr. universe
title and then all of a sudden he landed
in Rome in cinecittà doing Hercules
movies and yeah he made millions of
towers and there’s this money he took he
bought himself a gymnasium chain in
South Africa and he became a successful
gymnasium owner and as I read I became
more and more certain about my own
future as I read this story I was so
excited so interest that I knew exactly
that I wanted to become another reg Park
I know he laid out the blueprint for my
life basically I could see myself I
could visualize myself clearly to be a
champion on that same stage where he
wanted mr. universe and then to move to
America then get into movies and then
become rich and famous I had that vision
very clearly laid out I was so happy
that I knew exactly where I was going
from that moment down everything that I
did no matter how hard I had to work or
how much I had to struggle it didn’t
matter
it was a wonderful joy right because I
knew what the purpose was and I found my
passion the simple truth is if you don’t
have a vision if you don’t have a goal
if you don’t see your future laid out in
front of you you’re just floating around
without a purpose and I think that the
numbers speak for themselves
this is why so many people around the
world are unhappy with their jobs I mean
in America 74 percent of the people hate
their job and would like to change jobs
to think about that that means that only
a quarter of the Americans love the
life’s work I mean that is a very
depressing statistic I always smiled
when I worked no matter how hard I work
I always had a great time no matter what
I did it didn’t matter what was in
bodybuilding
or it was in the movie
so it was as governor I remember in the
pumping iron days people asked me in the
gym all the time why are you smiling all
the time why are you so happy you have
to lift 50 tons of weights you have to
Train five hours a day I mean I look at
the other bodybuilders faces and lifters
faces and they look kind of depressing
they look sour they’re miserable that
they have to lift weights you don’t look
miserable you look happy and I’d tell
them always they say I smile because I
know exactly that every rep that I do
there every set that I do every weight
that I lift I get one step closer to
turning that vision of mine into reality
and becoming that mr. universe I could
not wait to lift another 500 pounds in
the squats I could not wait to do
another thousand sit-ups I could not
wait to do bench press more bench press
and more curls until I couldn’t move my
arms anymore because I knew that every
rep got me closer to standing on that
stage as a champion as a matter of fact
when I lifted weights I didn’t really
feel like I was lifting weights I felt
like I was lifting a trophy over my head
each time I lifted and they’ll have all
those bodybuilders around me and
thousands of people screaming and I tell
you that this vision didn’t just help me
in bodybuilding it helped me in
everything like I said I remember in a
movie business there was many times
stunts that they had to do we I got hurt
that was in pain in agony and had to do
it over and over again I remember one
incident specifically on Conan the
Barbarian there there I was crawling on
all four on rocks over rocks and gravel
holding my sword right in front of me
and as I was crawling the camera
followed me and it was around 30 feet
that the crawlin does rocks and it’s
gravel and eventually after 10 takes my
elbows my knees started bleeding and
hurting and the director came to me
sheepishly and said to me says do you
mind if we do another take I need a
close-up of you and I said him no I
don’t mind at all I said going to as
many takes as you want this is none item
to do that because I know you’re in pain
you’re bleeding I said no no I don’t
feel any pain I say the only thing I see
is is the finished scene I see the
finished scene of me crawling on all
four with my sword in the front crawling
up and sneaking up behind salsa tomb the
main villain of the Conan movie that
killed my parents and rising up behind
him and cutting his head off that’s what
I see remember crush your enemies see
them driven before you and hear the
lamentation of their women so this is
why because I visualized that scene this
is why I did not feel that pain I did
not care if I was bleeding on my knees
because I know that pain is temporary
but the film is permanent and I
explained that to the director so this
is why I try to tell you always discover
your vision and the rest will follow now
my second my second rule is never ever
think small if you’re going to
accomplish anything you have to think
big you have to go and shoot for the
stars
the biggest challenge most people have
is because they think small and the
reason why people think small and why
did you choose small little goals is
because they’re afraid to fail they know
that if you shoot for big goal then the
chances of failing are very high and
they’re afraid of failing is one of the
most common things why people are frozen
it by they cannot make a move in life
because they’re scared of failing I say
to myself hey I’m not worried about
failing because that’s part of life
you’re not gonna be going win everything
and how far can you fall look at this
this is the ground that’s as far as I
can fall and you know something that the
only time you really consider the
failure is if you fall and you don’t get
up but if you get up you never consider
the failure so I never considered myself
a failure I always consider myself a
winner
even though FL every so often
I always got up and I always move
forward this is the important thing I
never had any patience of course to
submit a thinking small
because in German we ever saying ven
Xiang tension if that means that if it
was something think of all out and do it
well and this just not just the case in
bodybuilding I didn’t just want to be a
bodybuilding champion I wanted to be the
greatest bodybuilder four times I wonder
if the most muscle the the most most of
all times the most definition I wanted
to win the most trophies the most World
Championship titles I just wanted to be
the best and the same is also in movies
I didn’t just think about being in
movies know I wanted to be a movie star
I wanted to have above the title
building I wanted to become the highest
paid entertainer I basically wanted to
be another John Wayne what’s wrong with
that
and then famous in politics I didn’t
just want to go and be in politics and
enter a race for City Council I mean
let’s be honest they said sound right
Schwarzenegger City Council no come on
no the events once again mayor no it had
the Bishwas nigga running for governor
but not just any governor but governor
of the greatest state in United States
of California that was the important
thing I give you an example of bigger
thinking big when I became governor I
wanted to rebuild California’s ancient
infrastructure you see America has been
living off infrastructure that was built
in the 50s and 60s and it drives me
absolutely insane that America hasn’t
started rebuilding that infrastructure I
mean we haven’t invested in new roads or
in new transit and school so an energy
or anything like that for decades the
number of cars that we have now in
America of four times as many as we had
in the 60s so therefore we should be
having four times as many freeways four
times as many tunnels four times as many
bridges and orders but we don’t so this
is why I wanted to get our act together
and do the upgrading least in California
so when I talk about infrastructure I
didn’t really want
just fix roads and fix and close some
holes and the roads I wanted to build
massive freeways on top of freeways I
wanted to build the first high speed
rail in the United States I wanted to
build more bridges and more tunnels more
on ramps and off ramps I wanted to see
literally trains everywhere well there
was no excuse for Californians to get
stuck in traffic and there was no excuse
really to send your kids in overcrowded
classrooms and schools and it was also
no excuse that Los Angeles has a
hundred-year-old
sewage system that’s shitty I thank
Houston first of course some of the
legislators looked at me like I was
absolutely insane and I told him this
vision they were willing to spend maybe
five billion dollars which of course is
petty cash and compared to what my
vision was but some politicians of
course had a hard time to see the big
picture because they didn’t really ever
travel outside California so they
haven’t really seen big infrastructure
they haven’t really seen big
infrastructure all over the United
States or maybe in Asia and China and
Korea or in Brazil or in European
countries or here in Australia maybe so
they haven’t seen that and then of
course there are other politicians that
simply don’t have a vision of the future
past the next election which is a common
problem politicians have all over the
world so it is it was my job as governor
to motivate them and to take them and to
see the traffic change in Los Angeles
and to see the overcrowded classrooms
and to see all the problems that we have
but I kept pushing and pushing and a
pump them up enough that eventually they
saw the big picture and eventually
Democrats and Republicans came together
and we invested sixty billion dollars to
rebuild California’s infrastructure the
biggest investment of our state in 50
years so that’s what we did because we
had a big vision and everyone bought in
on this big vision so remember never
think small think big my third rule is
ignore the naysayers I think it is
natural that when you have the big
vision and big dreams and you have big
cores that people are gonna say around
you
I don’t think he can be done I think
it’s impossible or no I tell you hear
this all the time but I want to tell you
don’t ever let them stop you from
dreaming and from shooting for the big
goal because eliminate just simply those
words no impossible and it can’t be done
I mean in each one of my careers when
someone said it’s impossible I heard
it’s possible when someone said it can’t
be done I heard it can be done and when
someone said no then I heard loud and
clear
yes so this is what I believed in I am a
big believer of what Nelson Mandela said
he said it always seems to be impossible
until someone does it and that’s exactly
what it is and I wanted to beat that one
that does it I wanted to break the new
records and I wanted to do something
that no one else has ever done so I
think that’s what you need to do don’t
ever be worried about that someone
hasn’t done it just think about how many
times my career would have stopped my
career would have ended if I would have
listened to the naysayers I mean it
started right away when I was 15 years
old and I became a bodybuilder right and
if that happened I said I want to be a
world champion in bodybuilding I want to
be mr. universe they immediately said
are you crazy you in Austria in Austria
you can become a ski champion or a
bicycle champion or something like that
but bodybuilding is an American sport
forget about it it’s nuts ten men I
wanted to move to America they said
again it’s impossible you will never be
able to do that you’re from the money
you open yourself and then men I wanted
to go into show business
after I won 13 World Championship titles
in bodybuilding I said I want to be like
reg Park I want to be a Hercules I want
to get into movies well I tell you when
I met those agents and managers and
studio executives their reaction was Oh
[Laughter]
Arnold is so funny ha ha you want to be
what a leading man oh come on I mean
look first of all let’s start with your
body look at your body I mean you’re
over developed you’re gigantic
you’re like a monster are you kidding me
do you know what the news thing the new
trend is it’s little guys like Dustin
Hoffman Al Pacino Woody Allen
those are the new sex symbols don’t you
get it and then your accent oh it gives
me the chills just listening to your
German
come on now I mean oh god I mean it’s
like it’s scary when you talk it’s
unbelievable I mean have you ever Arnold
I mean b-series have you ever seen an
international movie star with the German
accent it doesn’t happen forget about
that and then your name what is it
Watson schnitzel or something like that
yeah I can see that name already up
there in a billboard yes and people are
gonna storm the field and the movie
houses because Watson is starring in a
movie oh yeah I can see that already so
that’s what they said they said to me
says look forget about that you a nice
guy I mean your bodybuilding champion
might envy you you open up a gymnasium
or health food stores something like
that we can help you with that then let
me get you on the side some little parts
like maybe playing a bouncer I mean with
your body perfect or maybe a wrestler
oh I have a good idea with you action
the Nazi officer now that’s really great
for you I call my buddies over at
Hogan’s Heroes I mean they would
probably use someone like you so that’s
what I said
imagine that everywhere I turn they said
no it won’t happen is not gonna happen
and forget about it
luckily I did not listen I did not
listen because I knew if I worked hard
enough and I worked as hard as I did in
bodybuilding five six hours a day that I
will make it that I could prove them
wrong and I started working very hard I
started taking acting classes English
classes speech classes dialog classes
even accent removal classes I ran around
all day saying lines like a fine wine
grows and a bind because you see the
Austrians and Germans have a difficult
time with that B and with the W and with
the F we get it all mixed up so it was a
fine wine grows on a vine or the sink is
made out of his ink and all those kind
of lines is it a window when you know
something all of a sudden I got a little
break in the early 70s I remember all of
a sudden I got a TV show a little part
then another little part and then all of
a sudden I got a phone call from Lucille
Ball to be in her special happy
anniversary and goodbye which was with
odd Connie I had the six minute scene as
an Italian masseur that most people
don’t know the difference between an
Italian accent in the German accent so I
got away with my German accent but I
played this Italian Monsieur and I was
so delighted and then right after that I
got that guest starring role in streets
of San Francisco with Michael Douglas in
Cowell Malden and then pumping out and
stay hungry and then of course I landed
the big role as Conan the Barbarian so
finally I got the big big break and you
know what was so interesting about it
was that soon as we were finished with
the Conan movie we were out there and a
promotion to him and the director said
that the press conference the directors
John Milius he said if we wouldn’t have
had Schwarzenegger with those muscles we
would have had to build one now think
about that before it was this huge
obstacle to have this party and all of a
sudden the director says if we wouldn’t
have had Schwarzenegger with his body we
would have had to build one now water
turn around and then when I did
terminator James Cameron said which was
really great he said the Albie Backlund
became one of the most famous movie
lines in history because of Arnold’s
crazy accent because he sounded like a
machine when he talks
[Applause]
so as you see everything that the
naysayers said was a liability became an
asset and the same was also in my
political career when I ran for governor
they immediately said I shouldn’t do it
it is a big mistake it won’t happen I
will lose and all of those kind of
things in the rest of course is history
the bottom line is if I would have
listened to the naysayers my career
would have ended when I was 15 years old
I will be still yodeling in Austria in
the Alps and I would not be talking here
the day to you and the reason why I’m
here today and talking to you is is
because I did not listen to you can’t
though it’s impossible or no so I just
recommend you very strongly ignore than
they say us the fourth rule is work your
ass off
nobody ever stumbled upon success by
accident except maybe the guy who found
gold in California but don’t ever think
that you can be that guy I mean India
you never want to fail because you
didn’t work hard enough I always
believed no stone unturned work your
butt off that’s what I always believed
no matter what you do work work work I
remember Muhammad Ali one of my great
heroes had a great line in the 70s when
he when he was asked how many sit-ups do
you do he said I don’t know because I
start counting only when it starts
burning when it starts burning that’s
when he starts counting you see that’s
what makes you a champion it doesn’t
matter in what area you in no pain no
gain the bottom line is one of my rules
which is work your butt off if you don’t
apply that rule all the other rules
won’t mean anything I mean it drives me
absolutely nuts when people say I don’t
have time to work out have me heard that
many times I don’t have time to work out
or I have worked so hard all day I’m
tired
I cannot work out anymore oh I cannot
read another book oh I cannot improve
myself
oh I don’t have time or I work so hard
that I cannot really improve my business
or I cannot grow as a person or any of
those things what the hell are we
talking about here I mean today is 24
hours you sleep 6 hours so you have 18
hours left I mean I know that some of
you out there that say well wait a
minute I sleep actually 8 hours but
let’s just sleep faster ok you know I
mean let’s not get bogged down with this
stuff yeah listen man I came to the
United States
I remember that I trained 5 hours a day
every day and I was managing a
construction business that was a
bricklayer and I went to college also
and I took acting classes from 8 o’clock
at nights to 12 o’clock midnight all
that in one day every day I did that I
did not worry about it I knew that at 24
hours and they didn’t want to waste one
single hour because I believed of what
Ted Turner said who is one of the great
entrepreneurs who start at CNN and so on
he said early to bed early to rise work
like hell and advertise so that’s what I
believe
just remember you can’t climb that
ladder of success with your hands in
your pockets you must work your ass off
[Applause]
and my fifth and last rule is don’t just
take give something back leave your mark
in the world I believe that we all have
an obligation to do something for our
community something for our state
something for our country we must serve
a cause that is greater than ourselves
because we all know that in the end we
will be judged not by how much we made
but the how much we give ever since
America greeted me with oak moms I’ve
had this sense of responsibility and I
felt obligated to give something back to
America because I know that everything
that I have accomplished is because of
America if it’s my bodybuilding career
if it is my show business career my
political career the money that have
made from a great family that I have all
of this is because of America but I have
to recognize the fact that America did
not become the land of opportunity in
this great country by itself no in
history people work tirelessly in
America people fought and people died to
make it the land of freedom and
opportunity in the land of liberty so
now it is our responsibility if we want
to keep it the number one country in the
world to work for that and to give
something back to that country and it
doesn’t matter if you’re in America if
you in Australia or if you’re in China
or Finland Japan or in Italy it is the
same thing you all have to give
something back to your country and by
the way you’re from now I love the words
of my father-in-law Sargent Shriver who
started the Peace Corps the Job Corps
legal aid to the poor during the Kennedy
and during the Johnson administration he
was the number one public servant and he
always inspired me to become a public
servant he was one of my heroes he said
at Yale University had a commencement
speech he said to the students tear down
that mural tear down that mirror that
makes you always look at yourself and
you will be able to look beyond that
mirror and you will see the millions and
millions of people that need your help
and I saw those millions and millions of
people
and this is why I tried to take every
opportunity that I could to give
something back I started training
Special Olympians people did Wendell
actually handicapped to help them with
weightlifting in powerlifting I became
the International powerlifting coach and
the torch bearer for Special Olympics
then later on I joined the Simon
Wiesenthal Center to fight prejudice so
we don’t have the things happening again
as we had during the Second World War
during the Nazi Reich and I joined also
the President’s Council on Fitness I
became the chairman on the President
Bush from 1990 to 1993 to be the
chairman and to promote health and
fitness in all 50 states that travelled
all 50 states
I started after-school programs for the
most vulnerable children for inner-city
children to make them be able to say no
to drugs no to gangs and no to violence
and to say yes to education and yes to
life
and every single time I reached out and
I gave something back I felt fantastic
nothing made me happier I would rather
play chess with an eight-yard kid in an
after-school program or play golf around
the Gulf with a special Olympian then go
down another red carpet of a movie
premiere and have nothing against movies
but to give something back to me is more
important than just to think about
myself eventually the joy of giving back
was so great that I decided to become a
public servant full-time and to turn my
back actually walk away from my career
as an actor after finished promoting
Terminator 3 I jumped into the race into
the governor’s race in California and I
ran for governor and even though my
friends advised me not to do that they
said are you crazy Arnold don’t you
understand that you would lose now
there’s 2030 million dollars a movie
that you’re getting paid and they will
only pay you a hundred and seventy eight
thousand dollars as governor a year or I
didn’t care because I knew that all the
money that I’ve made and to be in that
position the first place to make this
money is because of America
it was time to give something back so I
became governor and I didn’t even take
the hundred and seventy eight thousand
dollars I give it back to the taxpayers
because it was petty cash it’s the last
thing I needed and I can tell you that
those seven years were the most exciting
and the most rewarding and the most
gratifying years of my life to work all
day long
to solve problems and to serve the
people was absolutely heaven it was the
best job I’ve ever had but they also
knew that eventually it’s going to come
to an end and after two terms it did
come to an end but when he came to an
end the one thing that didn’t come to an
end and was not finished was my desire
to be a public servant industry of the
people and this is why I continued to
work for Special Olympics that’s why I
continued to work on fighting my fitness
crusade and traveling around the world
to promote health and fitness and this
is why I continued to support
after-school programs and we even
started the Schwarzenegger Institute at
the University of Southern California to
continue to inspire students and leaders
around the world to find solutions to
complicated issues and to give back and
to make the world a better place
but I tell you that I was very fortunate
that I had great heroes I great heroes
that I could look up to and I mentioned
two of them Muhammad Ali and Sargent
Shriver my father-in-law but there’s
other great heroes like gorbachev reagan
mandela great leaders like Mother Teresa
Chancellor Kohl and Churchill and the
list goes on and on I mean those people
had such an impact in the world
single-handedly they’ve changed the
world I mean if you think about just
Gorbachev I mean this man every time I
meet him I’m in awe I mean he grew up on
the communism and he rose from the
bottom of the ranks straight up to the
top he came president of the Soviet
Union one of the most powerful people in
the world and he was the lead of the
Communist Party I mean he wasn’t a top
position he realized that the system was
broken now what do you do when you had
the top leader of the Communist Party
and he realized that the system that
communism doesn’t work well you know
what he did he dismantled communism
think about the courage that it takes I
mean the guts daily things to do that
think about the Gorbachev completely
transformed his country with glass toast
to give his people for the first time
freedom intends to perestroika by
reforming Russia’s economy he didn’t
wait for the next president he didn’t
complain he simply said if not me who
and if not now when
so I feel very strongly all of us need
to have an embrace that kind of a spirit
we all can create change whether it is
now neighborhood or in our local schools
or in our country he can’t be big but it
can also be as little as just going to a
school kid that is problems reading and
teaching that kids are the read or how
to do math we don’t have to just work on
me
we should also work on we not just me
but also we remember that to lead a
truly full life you must give back you
must leave the world
better place than you found it because
the bottom line is it is up to us I mean
those rules that have given you
important rules but giving back is one
of the most important rules I guarantee
you that if you follow all of those
rules you will have many victories to
celebrate and you will leave you know
you work and you will have extraordinary
kind of a record and you will leave a
legacy behind that you can be proud of
so I want you to remember those rules
have a vision think big
ignore the naysayers work your ass off
and give back and change the world
because if not us who if not now when
thank you very much thank you
[Applause]
give it up for the saddle swatch nigga
obviously you’ve had so many different
careers out of all those careers what
would you say has been the most
rewarding career for you
I think definitely being a public
servant has been the most rewarding but
I would say that it is actually a very
difficult question to answer because I
think that it depends on what stage of
my life I was in when I was 15 years old
to me I didn’t think about being a
public servant and it was 15 years old
or thought about rules how can I become
the most muscular man and the biggest
guy the most powerful guy with the most
symmetry and the most muscles and win as
many championships as possible that was
the most important thing to me I only
thought about that I didn’t yeah how I’m
gonna get there that’s what I wanted to
do I was willing to train all day long
in order to get there but then later on
when I won all those championships in
bodybuilding I said myself it’s time to
move on and to take on another challenge
something that is very risky to do where
you could fail I always tried to pick
things that they were very risky and
they were hard to climb but they always
shot for big course and I decided that I
want to be you know in the movies and I
wanted to be a leading man and I saw
myself is like another Clint Eastwood or
you know Charles Bronson or John Wayne
or something like that and you know I
that was the most important thing for me
at that point and keep still in great
shape and all that but then later on as
I said there came a time and I said to
myself wait a minute I have gotten all
this opportunities and this this
wonderful life and America’s made it
possible that I could have gone to any
other country in the world and I
wouldn’t have even had a fraction of
that success that I have to give
something back we have to keep America
for future generations the number one
country so I started thinking one more
about giving something back eventually I
fell in love with the idea of being a
public servant that you know I jumped
into the governor’s race and at that
point that became the most important
thing you know so it’s it’s a you know
like right now to me to fight not only a
fitness crusade which by the way we have
won
because for four decades we’ve been out
there talking about weight training and
the importance of weight training and at
that time people said you’re gonna get a
heart attack you’re gonna get
muscle-bound you’re gonna get become
stupid if you workout you’re gonna
become a NASA sis you’re gonna turn gay
and all those kind of things that they
were worried about but today look at
this today there’s a gymnasium in every
single hotel all over the world in every
military base every police station every
fire station every University every
sports team has a weight rooms and
they’re relying on weight resistance
training even in the hospitals they have
to rehab rooms in the center’s whether
the weight resistance training so our
crew set was successful and we’re going
to continue this crusade but the same
thing is now thank you the same thing is
now with the environmental crusade I
think it is extremely important and I’m
very proud of what Australia is doing
with the environment I think that
California and in Australia has share
many ideas and they’re doing similar
things which is really great but there’s
a lot of countries that are not doing it
in this vial start at the r20 which is
an organisation and environmental
organization if things regional
governments together form all over the
world because I believe that those
movements only can be successful if you
fight them on a grassroots level from
the bottom up rather than from the top
down like they’re trying to do by
creating a kyoto number two 3d and all
those things there’s a very challenging
things to do but they should continue
working on that but in the meantime we
should do a ground movement because I
think all great movements have been
successful on a grassroots level if it
is the entire apartheid movement the
independence movement in India if it is
the civil rights movement in America or
the you know all of those movements have
been successful because they’re from the
bottom up and that’s what we have to do
also be done by environmental movement
bring Democrats and Republicans and the
Green Party and all the different
parties together and together we will be
able to push back and reduce our
greenhouse gases once and for so we
don’t have that many people at health
health risk because
is millions of people every year dying
because of the pollution and I think
Bill Gates once said that often we learn
more from our failures and successes in
the sense that often when we’re
successful we party and celebrate when
we fail we perhaps ponder and reflect in
your life would you say you’ve learned
from birth or
successful failure from more oh I think
that it is important that you learn from
both I think that is good like for
instance I learned from success when I
had my first success in bodybuilding I
realized the rules that I shared with
you today those five rules
I applied those rules and that’s what
made me successful so I applied those
rules again in entertainment and in my
acting profession and again I was
successful and then I applied it again
when I ran for office and got into the
political arena and again it was
successful so I learned that those are
the different rules that I can apply and
I will be successful if apply those but
the same is also with failure the key
thing is is that when you fail that
you’ve recognized why did you fail where
did you fall short and you learn from
that and the important thing is like I
said that you get up again then you
never stay down you always get up in the
minute I’m you fail you get up and you
know that’s why I love that word I’ll be
back because you got to get up I’ll be
back I’ll be back and they come back and
you come back over and over again
[Applause]
it went from Hollywood to politics and
now politics back to Hollywood you know
some people would say acting and being a
politician is the same thing well I mean
first of all I think in both professions
it’s important that you kind of think
about the people because if you do
movies it doesn’t make any sense
to just make movies that please you but
no one in the audience is gonna go and
see it I mean you need the fans to go
and see the movies to love your movie so
therefore you have to do the movies for
your fans rather than for yourself like
for instance with terminator we knew
right away that
you looked at that story that it was an
international story that had an
international appeal and that audiences
it didn’t matter in Africa or if you’re
in Australia or in Austria in Germany it
makes the difference where they would
like this story because it dealt with
action it dealt with a futuristic kind
of a theme you know it was good destroys
evil it was about machines versus human
beings all of those things that people
enjoy seeing the same was with Conan the
same was with twins with the baby did a
comedy I always thought about what was
the audience like to see what do they’d
like to see not just in America but all
over the world now it doesn’t mean that
you’re always successful because there’s
many times that you also make a mistake
and you think that this movies gonna be
great it goes right under the toilet
that happens too but the important thing
is that you always keep the audience in
mind the same is as a power addition you
have to think about what is what is it
that the people want you to do rather
than just what you want to do now of
course you have to lead but if for
instance the people need infrastructure
and you know that the kids go to
overcrowded classrooms like we talked
about in California or you need to
rebuild the infrastructure
transportation infrastructure then it
would be a mistake not to do that then
that’s why I insisted I knew in the
polls it was very clear in California
that the people who are upset about
getting stuck in traffic every day for
hours and hours that they wanted to for
us to build additional freeways
additional lanes additional on ramps and
off ramps and tunnels and bridges and
all those things and that’s exactly what
we did and they were happy about that so
I think it is important in both cases
that we do the people’s work rather than
for ourselves and of course the acting
profession what you learn in acting is
is that you connect with the audience
that you speak from your gut and not
just out of the mouth not that I have
just diarrhea out of the mouth but you
have actually crafted every word come
with meaning and that’s very important
in acting so you connect and you make
the scene believable where the same is
in politics as you know that empower
leagues a lot of times people just talk
and it’s just words
but people don’t buy in they don’t
believe it because someone just reads it
off the script or from the teleprompter
something like that and it doesn’t come
from the heart so I think it’s very
important that you connect with the
people and you make it believable that
you believe in it and that you are
passionate about it and then you can
draw the people in and make them
understand your vision and sell your
vision that’s what leadership is all
about the US Constitution if it was ever
to be changed that a foreign-born could
run for president is that something
you’d consider well I recommend it very
strongly when they talk now about
immigration reform as they were the
first thing that you should change an
immigration reform is dead law I mean I
you know I I’m actually just joking with
them it that the bottom line is I think
it’s an outdated law that we have in in
in America but I have been able to do
everything that it did because of
America so I’m not about to complain
about the one thing that I can’t do you
know that’s just the way it is and
there’s a reason why in America they
have that law and I think eventually it
will be changed it will be brought up to
date if it would be happening in my life
then I I don’t know but I think it needs
to be changed and not for me but I mean
just in general I think it would be a
good idea to have a foreign-born also be
able to run for president so it’s just
something that needs to be changed good
give me a hand okay
so let’s take some questions from the
audience let’s start right over here far
away with you question when you’re
lifting you don’t actually see the
weight you actually see a trophy so I
was wondering you have any other
techniques that you can share with us
that you use to stay conscious of that
like for example I know some people
meditate and stuff like that I was
wondering if you do anything like that
well I did in the seventies some
meditation but I think that when it
comes to actually being a becoming a
bodybuilding champion the most important
thing is
you are inside your muscles when you
train that you really feel the bicep
when you do your curls then you really
feel every rep that you do when you do
your bench press or your flies or your
poor lowers and so on
or that you really feel inside down to
the bone your calves when you do your
calf raises there’s so many people that
just are in the gym and they just go and
they go up and down and they think and
to think about something then they go
and they check their iPhone while
they’re exercising I mean I’m telling
you it’s not gonna happen it’s not gonna
happen because the muscle needs
absolutely full concentration it’s that
simple that’s the way you get the pump
to be inside and to go and concentrate
and do visualize at all times when you
train your Delta it’s that huge gigantic
deltoids and if you to visualize that
the deltoids are growing and then the
chances of them growing is much greater
and if you start looking at an iPhone
while you’re doing your exercise so it’s
not gonna happen so this is why I always
believe very strongly
they’re gonna go to the gym I want to go
and focus 100% on my training in the gym
focus but when I walk out of the gym I
didn’t want to talk about it anymore
it’s over because there’s some people
did like to talk about it and talk about
it and talk about the same thing over
and over it burns me out if I would do
that I like to going to the gym and then
I look at the equipment and then I say
okay the days arms and legs so I’m gonna
go and concentrate and then then I see
those machines and I start walking
around and they go from one set to the
next step to the next step then the next
set and just it’s like a machine to go
from one thing to the next and to really
keep training hard and to not just do
your 10 reps but to do as many reps
until you fail because it’s the only way
that you know how far you can push
yourself is if you’re willing to fail
and every set and that is how I grew
this is how I became the champion and
there is no shortcut to that whatsoever
no matter what training principles you
use if you lose higher reps or low reps
any of those things you got to go and
just why we’re on bodybuilding Annie
today’s bodybuilders how do you how do
you see that compared to when you were
dominating the sport well I think that
it leg in every sport people are getting
better all the time in bodybuilding I’ve
seen since my days bodybuilders have
gotten more defined they’ve gotten
bigger the bodies has developed more I
think because we have better machines
now we have better food supplements
better techniques in all those kind of
things that have developed the better
gyms in in general and so on I think
that especially in the amateur division
in bodybuilding extraordinary work has
happened all over the world there is now
a hundred and eighty countries to the
members of the International Federation
it’s the biggest Sports Federation in
the world we’re very proud of that we’re
literally a few a step or two away from
getting into the Olympic Games so
there’s great great work I think in a
professional bodybuilding side I think
that that has gone overboard I believe
that those guys have gotten too big they
are not able to perform and do the
posing that they ought to do with this
kind of development they ran out of
steam on a stage
they cannot flex long enough I think
they’re taking certain things that is
taking them in the direction where the
stomach is hanging out and they’re you
know certain growth hormones and stuff
like that so I think that this has
backfired because we could see that the
public’s interest has reduced when man
got over developed in the cartoonish way
where it’s not any more beautiful where
the all of a sudden looks at kind of
like power lifters with huge legs and
they’re walking around like that and
they can put the arms down say it gets
away from their whole ideal of what
bodybuilding is all about so I think
that the reason is because in
professional bodybuilding they’ve paid
so much attention to give him points for
size but not points for performance and
for posing if they will give more
points for posing and for symmetry
rather than just for size you will see
that change very quickly you want to see
guys running around in their suits like
they know they there’s something kind of
weird going on there but you will have
guys that look like you know like in the
old days Steve Reeves when he spent
people saw Steve Reeves on the beach
they said oh my god they can’t look
score just look at that Herculean body
they were in all of that and many other
body builders like that but the day the
way they waddle around you know it’s
like it’s like to me I think we went
overboard in professional bodybuilding
and now we have to rein it in and it’s
totally solvable I mean there’s no
problem with that I think just in the
next few years we have to rein it in and
just change the judging system a little
bit yeah let’s go over here question
over the side your greatest
accomplishment and what is something you
are yet to achieve that you have not yet
I want to be smarter I want to learn
everyday I want to win the environmental
crusade and I cannot wait until I get
the news instead of hearing that we have
increased our greenhouse gas emissions
by six percent over the last year I want
to hear that we have now stabilized and
then eventually hear that we are
reducing our greenhouse gases like
you’re doing here in Australia or like
we’re doing in California where we make
a clear commitment to reducing our
greenhouse gases by 25% at a certain
time in California for instance by the
year 2020 and then 85% but the year 2050
now the I my goal is to motivate the
rest of the world to do exactly the same
thing and I will not stop until this is
accomplished so that’s one of the things
that I want to accomplish name of the
thank you for being here
pumping iron used to train in law you’re
the only one used to train without any
shoes on there’s any particular reason
used to training bare feet
no there was it was it’s one of those
things that I just felt always good when
I could grab with the toes the floor
when I did squats or the the block when
I did my calf raises it was just a habit
and I everyone always said you’re gonna
drop something on your feet and it’s
gonna you’re gonna destroy your feet and
order things why I’m still standing so I
mean nothing was nothing was destroyed I
just always liked working out barefoot
and today adults today when I even when
I work out at home and I’ve carpeting in
my gym at home but I work out with
slippers so it was just it was just a
habit then and I always just loved it so
there’s no specific reason at all okay
now the question I decide thanks so much
for you talk mr. Schwarzenegger if there
was one habit or routine or one thing
that you remanded recommend that people
do daily that’s going to increase their
success what would that be I think Reid
I think the most important thing is and
and I can tell you that only because
when I was governor I worked from
morning to night having one meeting
after the other
every hour was another meeting one time
it was about prison overcrowding then it
was about law enforcement local law
enforcement then it was about education
then it was about the university system
then it was about the welfare programs
and about the health care system and on
and on and on and to me the capital of
California became the greatest classroom
that I could ever imagine I learned
because every time you have a meeting
you sit down and get the briefings and
you being brought up-to-date kind of
like what
issues about and so on and so you learn
and you learn in the learn I tell you I
felt so rich every day to learn that
much and to absorb it like a sponge I
felt like if every human being would
have the opportunity to learn because so
many people kind of stopped they go to
university they get their college degree
then they get a job and from then on the
growth stops they always say that we are
the most intelligent let me get out of
high school or when we get out of
college and then it stops so why not
take on if even if it is fifteen minutes
that they imagine that you’d spend
fifteen minutes a day to study history
and because the day on the internet it’s
so easy to find all the things that the
Roman history the German history the
European history the British history the
African history in or discount and
eventually after 365 days of this 15
minutes studying imagine the kind of
knowledge that you gather in the next
year they say I want to study the
history of music and you get into
classical music in this study about back
and about Beethoven about Mozart and all
those different guys just a little bit
not that you have to become a genius in
it but just study a little bit of it you
imagined it how rich and knowledge you
become and how much you understand about
everything and said to me it is always a
shame and I see that people do not
improve or as I said in one of my rules
work your ass off I said that people so
many times say oh I am exhausted I work
so much I don’t have the time anymore to
read another book I don’t have the time
to join a seminar like this or a
conference like that where you learn
something I mean this is the best
investment you can make to sit here and
to sit and to listen to those kind of
motivational speeches and so on I have
read so many of those books I have
listened to so many of this motivational
kind of seminars and listened to the
tapes I think they’re fantastic because
they pump you up they build you up and
you get out there and you say okay I’m
ready to fight and I’m ready again to
climb into to be the number one and so
on so I think I would say make an effort
to grow as a person
all the time stay hungry that’s Russian
hello first up on behalf of the audience
I’d like to thank you so much for coming
down here really appreciate it
secondly I’d like to know when you were
first starting out how did you all the
most important things you did to get the
arnold schwarzenegger brand as an
individual noticed and stand out from
the crowd I think there’s not something
that you work on I mean I’ve never even
thought about the brand when it was 20
years old
it was training every day I remember
when I was in the military I had my
dumbbells and my barbells and the side
of the tank I was a tank driver
I took the tools out of the side of the
toolbox and Abood Mutombo the blades the
way it’s India and the bars and then the
collapsible bench I put in there and
then they went a manoeuvre and at 6
o’clock or at 7 o’clock at night when we
were finished I putted all my equipment
that would work out to three hours a day
so I mean when everyone was tired and
fell asleep I will be working out so to
me I always concentrated on just working
hard and that’s how I became the
youngest mr. universe ever at the age of
20 so when you then do that and you win
Miss Universe between E and then you win
the second mr. universe dad will be 21
and then the third with 22 and missed
the world and mr. Olympia and it goes on
and on but I’m was 28 I won 13 worlds
bodybuilding championships so
automatically you develop a brand and
people start paying attention to you so
then from then on anything and
everything that I did people paid close
attention to that because they wanted to
know the see follow through with that
kind of discipline and that kind of a
vision and all the things he does and so
everything started adding and adding and
adding and you know so I developed that
brand and I was very fortunate that
because of the work that they’ve done
that no matter what country I go in you
know I have a great popularity people
have appreciated the movies people have
appreciated my promotion for
bodybuilding and for fitness and health
and also my environmental work that I
did and also being a public servant and
the
we stood they’ve done and they repeat
the lines you know if you go to Arabic
countries they say I’ll be back in their
way and you know in Austria they said
their way and over here in Australia
their way so say I mean people
appreciate this work so that’s how he
slowly built the brain but they never
really thought about oh I’m gonna go now
and build my brand or I’m gonna leave a
certain legacy so I was always too busy
just to do the work then they worry
about their or all fat but I mean you
know it’s it’s a the key thing for me
always was that if if people look at me
I think there’s one word that should
come to my mind that their mind this is
joy
I always said great joy what I’m doing
like speaking here the day – you did to
me this is not a job to me I am having a
great time to stand in front of you and
actually just on that someone said to me
earlier can you ask Annie what does he
do to relax is it true that you have an
army tank and that’s your idea
relaxation yes it’s like the tank that I
used in the austrian army i eventually
brought it to America and it’s an m47 a
patent that a tank that America gave to
various different countries all over
Europe no no this is a that’s not the
m47 from the kids from the Twain is not
from the fifties my bankers from the
fifties but there was a good Drive
I was a good driver but they know I have
a great time in where the tank was
restored and there has new tracks if
there’s a new engine it you know runs 35
miles an hour and I take it out on the
weekends and yeah we have a range it’s
called the melody ranch where they used
to do western movies in a valley near
Hollywood and I always take the kids in
the city kids that they have stay in
after-school programs every day five
days a week as a reward I take them
sometimes skiing the mammoth that they
fifty of them at the time and teach them
and get them to ski lessons in order or
I take them over to drive tanks all day
long with Ryder and I’ll be the tanks
and so as a reward and we all have a
but the test is not to say that on the
end when people said what do you do for
relaxation you work hard and do all
those things I really because I love the
work that I do I relax when I work I
don’t have to go and say oh my god and
now I’m so wiped out now I got to relax
I love the work they do when I am and a
movie set you know and I get asked to
come to the set and to act out a scene
I’m having the greatest time or you get
in the car and you do a chase scene I
mean how much more fun can you have or
they’re going to get the big constant
say okay kill Motown a few people if you
stand there you kill a few people I mean
you know it’s you you can you can be a
child and you can play out your
fantasies and all these things look at
that look at this equipment I mean it’s
it’s it’s a lot of fun so I have a good
time when I do and I had a great time
when I was governor and had all those
great meetings and you know going on a
campaign trip and sometimes you have to
do fundraising it gets a little bit more
tedious of course but I mean it’s it’s
it’s so fun I cannot complain so I don’t
need to relax so anything like this I
relax right now I’m relaxing standing
here and and schmoozing with you here I
relax completely I’m a 10 so anything
like that I don’t need to go afterwards
and leafy and say oh now I have to
collapse and I can you know lie down or
something like that
very good let’s take one more question
over here
good evening mr. Schwarzenegger I’ve
I’m representing the Arnold fans calm a
group that you know a bit about and but
first of all I’d like to say how much of
an inspiration you’ve been in my life
and helping me achieve my goals and I’m
sure a lot of people in here as well
thank you thank you you son-of-a-bitch
[Applause]
very nice now I understand that there
are a couple of scripts being written
and they’re trying to race to have been
finished one of them is the new Conan
movie and the other is Terminator 5 and
the question I would like to ask is out
of those two characters the Terminator
and Conan what are the two what is the
one that you hold dear most your heart I
don’t think there’s one character even
with all the other movies like for
instance I’m getting this script in two
weeks from now about you know the sequel
to twins which would be called triplets
and so to me that character was a really
fantastic character so you can’t say
what the Terminator character is more I
like more than this character or the
Conan character I like less than the
Terminator character something like that
there’s all you know great character
isn’t like I said I was very fortunate
to be able to play those kind of
characters that have an international
appeal to me that’s the most important
thing in the I’m very happy that the
studio’s want me to be in Terminator 5
from the star as the Terminator which we
start shooting in January and that they
want me to do King Conan and you know do
that play that role and also to do
another twins movie so you know I feel
very proud of that and I feel very happy
about that
and and I’m looking forward to English
and he just on the movie twins obviously
that was one of the first ones when you
went from being an action hero to
getting into comedy is it true that used
I didn’t take any money upfront to to go
on that movie well I you know I always
felt that they had a very intense side
about myself and you know kind of like a
machine or like playing out the action
hero but it also had a funny side to me
and I always you know wanted to act out
the funny side and but people felt like
okay I know they’re so successful with
the action genre why would we give him
another movie why not just give him
action movie after action movie after
action movie but I wanted to do a comedy
so I went to the studio executive the
Tom Pollock and Universal and I said
look there is a great idea that Ivan
Reitman the guy did Ghostbusters has
developed for me it’s a comedy it’s
called twins and I would do the movie
you don’t have to pay me I take the risk
just give me ownership of the part
ownership of the movie and so Ivan
Reitman and Danny DeVito and I took 40%
of the movie and didn’t take any salary
none of us and so we took the risk well
it happened to be that the movie made a
huge amount of money and and you know
the movie only costs 16 million dollars
to make because we did we took no salary
so because that would have been a
another huge amount of money there so
they save that and then we own 40% of
the movie and of course the money keeps
coming and keeps coming to me there was
one of those great great decisions but
you know the movie was stunt they were
they were shocked when I said I think no
money but then in the end when we asked
for the 40% you know and said we would
not sign the deal unless we get the 40%
I remember Tom Pollock into the studio
executive he then it was a funny thing
when he came around the desk and he
pulled out his pockets and he just bent
over like that
he says go ahead do it to me and huh and
and sure enough that’s exactly what we
so I daresay for triplets is a different
deal it’s a good deal yeah let’s have
two more questions okay one over here hi
I just like to say you’re one of the
most inspiring people to me and I’m very
grateful in this moment right now my
question is who was your favorite
leading lady
my favorite leading lady you know I
think yeah Jamie Lee Curtis probably was
my favorite leading lady you absolutely
it was Jamie Lee Curtis and also Lonnie
Anderson when we did the chain Mansfield
story for television she was another one
of this great big women I mean I was
very fortunate even with Sharon Stone
you know I mean she’s really tough to
work with but I had a great time with
her when we were shooting in Mexico we
had one incident where we there was a
blow-up on a set because we had this
scene where she’s supposed to attack me
and then I crap around the throat and
apparently that she had an incident in
her real life kind of like where she was
strangled or something like that and
said freaked her out and she’s threw a
fit and orders and we basically just
explained to her why didn’t you tell us
that ahead of time maybe rehearsed
you know we then would work around that
bit on the theory that the scene can be
rewritten yeah I don’t have to grab you
on the neck I can grab you somewhere
else
with great pleasure and and so so so
basically we worked it out and I said
and everything went fine then and we it
worked around those problems in a gentle
way but you know those those things
happen but I mean I worked with real
tough actresses but I think that the
most fun and because I also knew her
from Sun Valley from skiing was Jamie
Lee Curtis and she did an extraordinary
job with that with that part and I think
there was one of the reasons why I
always was looking forward doing a
sequel to two True Lies but as you know
with James Cameron it’s his movie and
he’s a much more complicated guy and now
he’s involved you notice Avatar movies
and so on
so so which I wish him good luck with
that and you know he has been extremely
successful and has the most successful
movies in a history of motion pictures
so he’s a terrific director final
question final question for Annie
Ayana big fan longtime fan of your
movies and also read your book and big
fan of your journey as well I guess
you’ve sort of touched on it through
throughout the talk tonight and even
before about tackling climate change and
doing all sorts of great things I guess
going back to your first rule about the
big picture the vision I guess where
what is your vision now that after
you’ve achieved so many great things
bodybuilding movies politics what’s your
vision for the future and how does that
sort of fit in with your your five rules
or the first rule well I think I touched
on the my vision of the environmental
crusade and so on but I think that one
of the important things for me was to
create the Schwarzenegger Institute at
the University of Southern California in
order to inspire students and to teach
students to be great leaders in the
future I think that you have to really
pay close attention to our students
make sure that they are the ones that
really are going to be the leaders of
the future that we educate them the
right way and that we teach them the
important things and when they become
leaders in the public sector how not to
get tied up with being a conservative or
being a liberal you can have your
philosophy but then the end that is so
important and so much more important
they be do the people’s work not the
party’s work because we have public
servants and not party servants that is
the biggest problem in politics that
people feel obligated to serve their
party if it’s the right wing or the left
wing or the middle of whatever I think
we have to serve the people they are
ultimately the ones that deserve the
service they are paying the taxes and so
this is what I want to teach future
leaders leaders to make decisions based
on what is best for the country
what is best for the neighborhood for
their state what’s best for the people
ladies and gentlemen please give a huge
hand for miss Arnold Schwarzenegger [Applause]
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