Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 10.07.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, guys, here we are last break of the
day on this Tuesday. It's been a fun day. Thank
you guys for listening. As always, we appreciate you. Steve,
if you want to take us down, you know my
close remarks. It is kind of what Junior and I
had talked about in the opening. Junior's question to me was,

(00:21):
unc how do you measure success? And I thought that
was a great question because what a lot of people
do is they make the mistake of measuring their success
up against others. There's a saying that says comparison is
the greatest thief of joy. If you want to feel badly,

(00:41):
just start comparing yourself. It's somebody somewhere always doing better
than you, or appearing to do better than you, or
claiming to do better than you, are fronting to be
doing better than you. You don't really know what's going

(01:04):
on in people's lives because they don't let you see
behind the curtain. They got an Instagram account where they
post the absolute best polls and they absolute best outfit,
and you sitting up here on every time I see them,
they this and theate that that's the part they want
you to see. Stop comparing yourself to other people. Comparison

(01:25):
is the greatest thief of joy. If you want to
truly measure your success, I'll tell you something else. Don't
look at your success and base it on how close
you are to your goals. Don't use that as a
measure of success. Don't use as a measure of success

(01:46):
to look at all you've accomplished in hopes of accomplishing more.
Here's the way to really measure your success. Take a
look at where you are right now and compare it
to where you came from. There's your measurement for success.

(02:07):
And if that don't brighten up your day and make
you feel better, something's wrong. Because as far away as
you may be from your goal and your aspiration and
your desired or mount or achievement, as far away as
you are, have you ever really thought about how far
you've come? Have you ever sat down and just said, man,

(02:30):
I remember when I remember when I was complaining the
other day and I had to remind myself of a
quote because I was just I was just swamp. I
was just I just felt the weight of the world.
I was just felt like, man, it was really getting

(02:53):
to be a lot, and for a brief moment, I
registered a complaint, and then I remember the quote that
I've said at a hundred times. You can't complain about
what all is on your plate when your whole gold
was to eat. Remember that, Steve, Remember man, when you

(03:13):
just wanted to be able to pull your chair to
the table with everybody else and just get down, just
be able to feast. Well, now you at the table.
You've earned your seat at the table. And now you're
looking at all this on your complaint on your table,
and you complaining. Now, man, you can't complain about what
all is on your plate when your whole gold was

(03:35):
to eat. You just wanted to eat. Now you have
an abundance to eat. Now you complaining? Man, Stop Stop,
Remember where you row, where you from. See you know
what really keeps me grounded. I constantly remind myself that
I was homeless. I constantly remind myself that I wasn't
the one getting picked. I remind myself of all the

(03:57):
people who wrote me off. I remind myself of flunking
out of college. I remind myself of the lady telling
me you'll never amount to anything. I remind myself and
not to be hateful to them, but to remember how
far I've come from. That's what it is for I've
learned so many valuable lessons in life, and the best

(04:20):
one I learned recently. Here's the best thing I learned recently.
I don't walk away to teach nobody a lesson. I
walk away because I done learned mine. See that's a
whole nother world. I'm walking away because I done learn
my lesson. Man, I'm not I would rather adjust my

(04:43):
life to live without you than to adjust the boundaries
that you have set for me. That I confine in
those boundaries of disrespect you have for me, man, miss
me with all that I'm not fitting them, shrink myself
down no more for nobody to fit in your he
okay category or he a nice guy? Yo. Man, Hey, look,

(05:10):
I'm I'm a good person. But because you're a good person,
don't mean you have to be a nice guy all
the time. That don't make no sense because people gonna
take advantage of that. Just be a good person. But
being a good person don't mean you have to be
a nice guy. Nice guys comply with everything everybody want.
That ain't how you live your life. You gotta tell

(05:31):
people no, you gotta protect your peace. You gotta get
yourself in a place and realize, hey man, I'm peaceful
over here. You're not coming here interrupting my peace. I
got a text from a guy the other day, a
text asked me for fifty thousand dollars in a text,
just a text and just say, hey man, I'm in

(05:53):
a tight the other day. I'll tell you another one.
This is not bragging. A guy who we had pitched
this concept too, and for him to join in for
this concept we had created, it was a lot of
money to get in. We go to dinner. He's smoking
a cigar. He blows cigar, smoking my face and say,

(06:15):
Steve Harvey, I know all you want is my money.
And I'm looking at him, I'm like, hold on, bro,
we put a business proposition in for you. You're not
handing this money to me. He's gonna blow some cigars
smoking my face and then come talking about I know
all you want is my money. You must think I'm crazy,
you must think I'm a new kind of stupid man. Please, hey, y'all,

(06:37):
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