Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 08.29.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are our last break of
the day. You excited. This is a good day. We
have fun. Yeah, Friday day, Yeah, a three weekend labor day.
Let's going you doing all that? I don't really know yet.

(00:23):
Now I think my girl got to go somewhere, so
you're not sure I would? And see what my schedule
look like? Okay, all right, Well I got a question.
All right, soon as I get back from Birmingham, I
am on the grill. What are you cooking? Oh? I

(00:44):
got that wagon, steak girl, I got that. I got
some chicken in there. I got some some linked he
got some money. First it was caviare all right? First?
All right, come on, Carlo, you got a question for Steve? Yeah,
I saw this on a line. What do you usually

(01:04):
say to yourself when you fail at something? I mean,
what I've always said is get up. It's okay. If
I fail at something, that always means something to me
that I gave it one heck of a shot, because

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I don't fail with half attempts. I'm all in, so
I know I've given it and my best shot, and
if I fail at it, it wasn't meant to be.
And so now I take away from that the two
things that I always come away with all moments of adversity.
There's a lesson and a blessing, and I immediately go

(01:46):
to both of those things, so I never wallow in failure.
Failure is a part of the process. I've learned to
accept that over the years. It's okay. I'm gonna tell
you something that was really dope, man. That happened, and
I wish I had mentioned it at invest Fest. I
had thought about it. I said, Manam, if somebody asked
me this, I'm gonna share something with it. I know

(02:08):
this is gonna be failure because the road I'm traveling
is always hard. And one of my friends this year,
we were at the ranch talking and one of my
friends said to me, they said, love, why you always
take the hard road? I said, what you mean, man?
He said, every time? Why you always take the hard road? Man?

(02:32):
I said, but brother, let me ask you something. What
makes you think I see two roads? See, I only
know the way. I already know that the way is
going to be hard. Already know that ain't no need
of taking the easy path. You ain't gonna get nothing,
You're not gonna accomplish nothing the easy road. That's not

(02:54):
the one you need to be on. Everybody on that
is crowded over there. Rick or one of the greatest
band leaders I've ever worked with in this business him
and rate you to the great ones. He wrote a
book one time, and I loved the title of the book.
He said. The name of his book was Ain't no
traffic on the Extra Mile. That was the dopest title

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of a book I've ever read. Ain't no traffic on
the extra mile. If you go extra it's clear out there,
it's clear. So the road I'm always traveling is always
the hard one because I already know what I want.
The things I want in life, they're going to be

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difficult to acquire. I've gotten all the stuff that's easy
to get, already got all that what you know? So
why would you keep taking the easy road? If you
have everything that's on the easy road? What you over
there for? You got to take the hard road. But
like I tell people, like I told my Pardner, and

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I wish I had said it, that invests first, what
makes you think I see two roads? Because I only
see the way, and I already know that the way
is hard. It is froth with pitfalls and land minds
and hardships and tribulations, and I expect that. So when

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I fail, I know it's a part of the process,
and I immediately know, well, I got that out the way,
so now I know what else not to do, And
knowing what not to do is just as valuable as
knowing what to do. So now I'm one step closer
to the goal. And that's how you got to look

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at failure, man, because it's not failure, it's gained experience.
It's not failure, it's a gained experience, and that experience
can be valuable because I'm telling you, if you live
long enough, will know this to be true. It is
just as good to know what not to do sometimes
as it is to know what to do. My father

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used to tell me all the time, son, when a
fool is talking, don't walk away, stay there, pay close attention.
And I used to be confusing to me. So I
asked my father once, I said, Daan, why would I
stand there talking to a fool? He said, because he's
gonna teach you a lot of stuff you need to know.
I said, what can I learn from a fool? He said,
for starters, what not to do and what not to say.

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He said, that's that's valuable information. So failure for me
is a part of the process. Failure for me is
a gained experience. Failure for me is a lesson learned.
Failure for me is one step closer. So it's not
really failure, y'all. Just get up, keep going. That's what
I've always done. I thank God for that part that

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He's instilled in me. I've learned not to wallow there,
lay in it because guess what, this too shall pass? Wow,
don't it always? God is good, y'all. He really is.
And God is available to you. He's available to anybody
who seeks him. If you call on him, he will answer.

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If you seek him, he will appear. Stop thinking God
then walked away from you because he ate. God is
always available. Hey, listen, y'all talk to God. He would
absolutely love to hear from you. And it don't matter
if it's been a while. Y'all have a good one man,
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