Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 01.01.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's been a good day. We're starting this new year

(00:02):
off in the right direction today. Yeah. Hey, you know
what I had to come to the realization. I kind
of want to share this with people, but you know,
I want to talk about there's a cost. There is
a cost. You know, when you make the decision to

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be successful comes with a cost. And as much as
I've tried to negate the cost, as much as I've
tried to alleviate the cost, as much as I've oftentimes
just tried to not talk up the cost, the cost
is real. You know. I got in trouble, not really trouble,

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but I got a bunch of haters that came online
one time when they saw me give a speech about
if you want to be successful, really really successful, it's
something you can't sleep eight hours And I believe that,
you know, somebody counted it with Oprah says she gets
eight hours sleep. Well. Oprah's wealthy, though, but if you

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go back on her journey and asked her when she
was hustling trying to make it, what she getting eight
I don't think the answer would be yes. Everybody, I
know that's grinding, that's in the hustle, trying to really
really have more than normal. If you want above average,

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it comes at a cost. And I've tried not to
talk about it because I don't want to, you know,
knock anybody down about it. But man, it's there's a
cost for everything. And you know, I know a lot
of successful people who have health is shu. I've had

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my share of myself. Tommy can tell you about his,
Junior can tell you about his, All of us can
tell you about health issues. It's sometimes, you know, it
just it's a part of it. I don't know how
to explain it now. You don't want to sacrifice one
for the other, but sometimes it's unavoidable because there is

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a cost, and a lot of times you end up
sometimes you have health issues because you just don't know
any better, you know. And that's why knowledge is so important,
because when you know better, you can do better, you know.
And had I known a long long time ago that
everything I put into my body was gonna have an
effect on me, I would have made some changes a

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long long time ago. I just really started understanding this
in the last fifteen twenty years of my life. You know,
the how important eating the right thing is, how important
it is to take supplements. How important it is to
take regular visits to your doctor. And as black men,
I'm talking especially to black men, we find it so

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hard to go to these doctors. I got a partner
right now, man that's trying to get out the hospital
right now because he ain't been to the doctor in
eight years. But he's seventy and he ain't been to
the doctor in eight years. We can't do that because
we've been grinding. And I understood something about grinding recently.

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When you're grinding, grinding means actually to wear down. But
in order to have something, you got to get in
the wear down process, and the thing you end up
wearing down is your body. Now, I'm not saying you
should exchange your health for wealth. I wish that wasn't
the cost, but oftentimes that's the cost factor, and people
who don't want it, you don't have to do it.

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But then there's a cost with being poor. To see,
there's a cost factor when you decide not to be anything.
It's a cost factor when you decide I'm just gonna
ride it out, I'm just gonna mail it in. There's
a cost factor for that. I notice when old people
who've been working their whole life. Finally retire and they

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don't and they able to stop being active. I watch
them wear down, dissipate, just wither away because that work,
that thing called the grind of getting up going to
work every day. It gave them something to live for.
It gave them something to do and made them active.
It's just a cost, man, But you have to decide

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which one of the costs you want to pay. Do
you want to pay the cost of being successful, or
do you want to be the cost you want to
pay the cost of being poor. Now, when I say poor,
I mean really poor. I don't mean like if you
make one hundred thousand dollars. I ain't talking about like that.
You're doing great, man, your life is good. I think
people that make one hundred thousand dollars doing fine with
your life. That's not what I'm saying, so please don't

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misunderstand me. I'm talking about when you don't have enough
to eat, you can't put a roof over your family's head,
you can't get them to the store, and then you
got to do more. Man, you gotta do more. But
it's a cost for it, one way or the other.

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I suggest, though, if I look back on it all,
you have to find a way to create a balance.
But the balance ain't gonna be even even, It's just
gotta be. You got to grind, you got to rest,
You got to grind, you got to rest, You got
to grind, you got to rest. If you just grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind, grind,

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then try to rest, the cost factor's gonna be greater.
So find the balance for yourself. I can't tell anybody
what that is, but there is a cost to being successful,
but there is a cost to not being successful, and
you have to decide which one of the costs you
have to pay. Now that's just real talk. You can

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say it ain't so, but yes, it is not being
able to provide for your family. That's a cost being
able to provide for your family. There is a cost.
You have to decide which cost you're willing to pay
and then find a balance. That's what I had to school.
So those are my closing remarks. That's it for today. Hey, listen, y'all,

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