Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 09.04.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are last break of the
day on this Thursday. It's been a fun day. We've
had a good day. Thank you very much for listening
every day. We appreciate your business. We do years, yes,
twenty years strong to still number one. You couldn't do
it without you. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We

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appreciate you. All right, kay, you know my close remarks
today is going to remind everybody about this thing that
we all have to endure. The thing that all of
us have to endure is call failure. Failure happens to
be a part of the process. Nobody, nobody living gets

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to go through life and not experience failure. What stops
most people, and the saying is the number one cause
of failure is the fear of failure. Now understand what's
that's saying. The number one calls for failure is the

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fear of failure. See, it is the fear of falling
that makes you not want to climb. It is the
fear of being let go which makes you not want
to commit. It is the fear of being hurt that
makes you not want to love. But in not climbing,

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in not falling, and in not experiencing love. You've already failed,
You've already failed. But it is the fear of that
that is the number one cause of failure. So what
do you have to do, Steve? You have to understand
what failure really is, and it is a part of growth,

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a part of learning, and a huge part of success.
There are no successful people who have not failed that.
They just don't exist. And they will all tell you that.
And they have failed over and over and over. And
every time I see you, something don't work. You know
how many times somebody told me that, you know, working

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at jobs, got laid off, got released, you know, bids
and carp cleaning company went down, the rib joint went down.
The Al Williams insurance didn't work out. The Bohemian diet
I was selling didn't work out though, shackly products I
was selling that didn't work out. Trying to be a
way representative that didn't work out. Do you know, as

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my friends watched me, you know how many times they've said, man,
every time I turn around, you doing something that don't work,
instead of saying, hey man boy, you show trying. Man,
I really really admire your effort. You're not gonna get
that they just gonna look at their failures because people
people kind of enjoy that. I remember one time, a

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dear friend of mine went by to see my mother
one time, and hadn't nobody heard from me in Cleveland
for a while, because I didn't want to tell nobody
I was homeless. I just I never shared that with anybody.
I never called my brothers or my homeboys and my
Mama and daddy. I never told him, hey, look, I'm
messed up out here. I'm homeless. But a friend of

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mine went by my parents' house one time and he
told him. They said, uh, hey, y'all heard from Steve. Well, Rick,
we hear from Mary nine. Then my mam was telling him.
You know, he called me and let me know. He
came and he said, well, miss Harvey, you know the
problem with Steve. She said what she said? He said,
Steve lazy, Steve don't want to work. And my mother

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told me that the next time I called it, she said, Steve,
beware of your friends because one of your friends and
said you're lazy and you don't want to work. But
I know my husband didn't raise no lazy boys. I said, now, Mama,
it ain't that I'm lazy and I don't want to work.
I just don't want to work for nobody else. I
want to do something and get it for myself. That

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was the whole thing with me. And yeah, you know, man,
you know, miss Harvey. He tried this. He went down
the list of everything I told y'all I had tried
and failed at. But he never once said, Man, Steve, really,
I really admire how he gets back up and keeps
going in the face of no matter what happens to him.

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And that has been an essential part of my success.
And I really really thank God for it because he
has given me the ability to get up. He has
taught me that if you get up, I'm still here,
I'm still in charge, I'm still with you. Just keep
getting up. I got something better for you. I keep
waking you up in the morning. I have something for you.

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But I need you to get up and keep taking
your steps. Steve Harvey. And somehow all the teachings that
my mother gave me as a Sunday school teacher was
coming into play. I could hear her again saying to
me over and over the little Bible verses and stuff,
and it kept me with the ability to get back up.
Failure is a learning Failure is an experience. Failure is

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a part of the process. You've got to go through
it to get to it. That is no free lunch, man,
ain't no free meals out here. It's gonna cost you something.
But when you endure the failures, you gonna look up.
You know what I'm doing so well? Now, do you know?

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It's kind of crazy, man, I look back on my failures.
It don't matter that my carpacaino company called clothes. It
don't make It don't even matter that that carpet installation
business clothed, that my restaurant closed. It don't matter that
I didn't do well in amwey It. I don't matter
that Shackley didn't work for me. A L. Williams didn't
work for me, that I got laid off at for it,
It don't even matter, because what God gave to me

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was so much more than what I was losing that
it don't even make no sense. Failure is a part
of the process. Keep failing because eventually you gonna win.
If you keep failing. That means you are constantly trying,
and that's the process you need to be in and
congratulations for winning. Failure after failure after failure, and watch

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what's gonna happen. You will have a story to tell.
Those are my clothes remarks. Hey, listen, here's the most
important thing you need to know today. Talk to God today.
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