Steve Harvey's Closing Remarks - 12.05.25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, you know what I had to come to the realization.
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 as 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 go back on her

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journey and asked her when she was hustling trying to
make it what she getting eate, 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.

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If you want above average, 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, there's a cost for everything. And you know,
I know a lot of successful people who have health issues.

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I've had my share of myself. Tommy can tell you
about his, Junior can tell you about his. All of
us can tell you about health issue. 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

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is 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 long long time ago. I just really started

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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 hard to go to these doctors. I got
a partner right now, man that's trying to get out

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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. When you're grinding, grinding means actually to wear down.

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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.
But then there's a cost with being poor. To see,

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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 fire retire and they
don't and they to stop being active. I watch them

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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, It made them active. It's
just a cost, man, But you have to decide which
one of the costs you want to pay. Do you

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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 are that that make one hundred thousand dollars doing
fine with your life. That's not what I'm saying, so
please don't misunderstand me. I'm talking about when you don't

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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 then you got to do more, man, You
got to do more. But it's a cost for it,
one way or the other. I suggest, though, if I
look back on it, all, you have to find a

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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,
then try to rest, the cost factors gonna be greater.

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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
say it ain't so, but yes, it is not being

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able to provide for your family. That's a cost being
able to provide for your fam. There is a cost.
You have to decide which cost you're willing to pay
and then find a balance in there. That's what I
had to discover. So those are my closing remarks. That's
it for today. Hey, listen, y'all, have a great day.
Talk to God today. He loved to hear from you.

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