Travel Note 10: Advice from POTUS

POTUS tells the graduates the following:

"First, if you're here today and think that you're too young to do something great, let me tell you that you are wrong. You're not too young. You can have great success at a very young age. You grow very young in America when driving ambition, young people can do anything. I was 28 when I took my first big gamble to develop a hotel in Midtown ... and it worked out incredibly well. I was very young at the time. I was like a very young person. So then both businesses, Steve Jobs was 21 when he founded Apple. Walt, Disney was 21 when he founded Disney. James Madison, James Monroe, Alexander and Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, they were no older than 25 when they began their journeys ... So to everyone here today, don't waste your youth. Go out and fight right from the beginning, from the day you leave this incredible university, go out and fight, fight tough, fight fair, but go out and fight. You can be very successful, because now is the time to work harder than you've ever worked before. Push

yourself further than you ever push yourself before. Find your limits in this smash through everything. Go ahead, smash through."

"Second ... you have to love what you do. I rarely see somebody that's successful that doesn't love what he or she does.

I had a lot of different careers, but I loved real estate so much, and I was very successful in real estate because I loved it."

"Third thing is to think big. You know, you gotta do something. You gotta slow, big, big, because it's just enough. You can think small. And a lot of people, they thought small and very smart. I know it doesn't work daily as small, but that a better picture of the big picture, because it's just as hard to solve a small problem, it's a big problem, and it's just as much energy everything else, except the result is going to be a smaller one. So love what you do. I think being good as possible now, but it's not possible. That's okay, too. You do something. You have to do something that you love. You will have all the same headaches and challenges, all the same delays and setbacks. You might as well do something that's just amazing."

Please check these quotes against your recordings of the broadcast because these are from Otter and the connectivity here isn't so great.

Andrew Feinberg

White House Correspondent

The Independent

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