[00:00] i'm here to talk about success
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[00:05] the first rule of success is to have a
[00:07] vision
[00:09] you see if you don't have a vision of
[00:11] where you go and if you don't have a
[00:13] goal where you go
[00:14] you drift around and you never end up
[00:16] anywhere
[00:18] i mean as you know i was born in 1947 in
[00:21] austria after the second world war
[00:24] so i was very fortunate
[00:26] that i stumbled under my vision
[00:30] and i didn't really like austria when i
[00:32] grew up
[00:34] i couldn't wait to get out of there
[00:36] i couldn't see myself becoming a farmer
[00:40] or a worker in a factory
[00:42] or anything like that
[00:44] even though my parents wanted me to stay
[00:46] there and have a normal life
[00:48] but that was their vision not mine
[00:51] my vision was totally different i felt
[00:53] that i was born for something special
[00:55] for something unique for something big
[00:58] then one day i went to school i remember
[01:00] was 11 years old
[01:03] and they showed a documentary about
[01:04] america
[01:07] there they showed this documentary the
[01:08] huge skyscrapers
[01:11] the high rises
[01:13] the huge bridges
[01:15] the six lane freeways
[01:18] and all of this stuff in this emissive
[01:20] that's where i want to be
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[01:23] i don't want to be around here with
[01:24] these little farm houses and these
[01:26] little buildings i want to be in america
[01:29] one day after school i walked by a store
[01:32] in graz
[01:33] so i went inside and i looked around and
[01:35] then i saw a magazine
[01:37] there's a bodybuilding magazine that had
[01:39] reg park on the cover
[01:42] reg park was then a three-time mr
[01:44] universe
[01:45] and i saw him on the big screen as
[01:47] hercules
[01:48] i read that and i said to myself wow
[01:52] this is the blueprint for my life
[01:55] this is exactly what i want to do
[01:58] i want to become a bodybuilding champion
[02:00] just like rage park
[02:01] i want to get into movies just like rich
[02:03] park
[02:04] and i want to make millions of dollars
[02:06] and be rich and famous
[02:08] just like reg park
[02:10] do you know how great it felt
[02:12] that i knew where i was going
[02:16] imagine the majority of people don't
[02:17] know where they're going
[02:19] i knew where i was going
[02:21] that i'm going to become this
[02:22] bodybuilding champion just like him
[02:25] so it was just a question of how do you
[02:27] do it
[02:28] i was so relieved
[02:30] because when you have a goal when you
[02:32] have a vision everything becomes
[02:34] easy so people always ask me when they
[02:38] saw me in the gym in the pumping iron
[02:40] days
[02:41] they say why is it that you're working
[02:43] out so hard
[02:45] five hours a day six hours a day and you
[02:48] have always a smile on your face
[02:50] and i told people all the time i said
[02:52] because to me
[02:53] i'm shooting for gold
[02:56] in front of me is the mr universe title
[03:00] so every rep that i do gets me closer to
[03:02] accomplishing that chord to make this
[03:04] core this vision turn into reality
[03:08] every single set that i do
[03:10] every repetition every weight that i
[03:12] lift will get me a step closer to turn
[03:14] the score in the reality
[03:17] so i couldn't wait to do another 500
[03:19] pound squat i couldn't wait to do
[03:21] another 500 pound bench press i couldn't
[03:24] wait to do another 2 000 reps of sit-ups
[03:27] i couldn't wait for the next exercise
[03:29] with the age of 20 i went to london and
[03:32] i wanted to miss the universe contest as
[03:34] the youngest mr universe ever
[03:37] and it was because
[03:38] i had a goal
[03:40] [Applause]
[03:42] so let me tell you something visualizing
[03:44] your goal and going after it makes it
[03:46] fun you've got to have a purpose no
[03:49] matter what you do in life you've got to
[03:51] have a purpose
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[03:57] 74 percent
[03:59] hate their job in america
[04:02] now there's not much different when you
[04:03] come to europe
[04:05] the majority of people don't like what
[04:07] they're doing
[04:09] because they're really not doing it
[04:10] because they didn't have a goal and they
[04:12] followed the score they just aimlessly
[04:15] drift around and then all of a sudden if
[04:16] there's a job opening so they get their
[04:18] job because you have to work
[04:21] but then when you work it's a chore
[04:24] it's work
[04:26] it's not fun so if you think about only
[04:29] a quarter of the people really enjoy
[04:31] what they're doing in life
[04:34] that is unbelievable if you think about
[04:35] it so i felt so blessed that i knew what
[04:38] i was doing
[04:39] it's like a medical student that studies
[04:42] and knows he wants to become a doctor
[04:43] you know where to go
[04:45] and the same thing is also in politics
[04:48] i remember that in politics i had a very
[04:51] clear vision
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[04:54] that i will be the leader of california
[04:57] this is as far as i could go because i
[04:58] was not born in america so i could not
[05:00] run for president
[05:02] so being the governor of the fifth
[05:04] largest state
[05:07] of i should say the largest state the
[05:08] fifth largest economy in the world
[05:12] was for me really
[05:14] the ultimate title the ultimate
[05:16] accomplishment in politics
[05:18] so even though people came up to me and
[05:19] says why don't you go
[05:21] and run for something smaller you're
[05:23] never gonna make it
[05:25] i ran for governor and then two months
[05:27] later i became governor of the state of
[05:28] california
[05:30] again because i had a very clear vision
[05:32] what i'm gonna do with california
[05:35] [Applause]
[05:39] so that's rule number one
[05:41] have a vision
[05:43] rule number two is
[05:44] don't listen to the naysayers
[05:48] don't listen to the naysayers
[05:55] everything i ever did
[05:57] the thing that they heard out of
[05:58] people's mouth was that's impossible
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[06:02] that can't be done
[06:04] or no
[06:06] that is exactly what i heard and of
[06:08] course i proved to the people that it
[06:09] can't be done
[06:11] so whenever someone said to me
[06:14] it can't be done i heard it can be done
[06:17] when they said no i heard yes
[06:20] and when they said it's impossible i
[06:22] heard it is possible
[06:26] i'm a strong believer what nelson
[06:28] mandela said
[06:30] that everything is always impossible
[06:32] until someone does it
[06:35] well i'm gonna be the one who said to
[06:37] myself i'm gonna do it and i'm gonna
[06:39] show it to them maybe it has never been
[06:40] done before
[06:42] that's perfectly fine with me
[06:44] but i'm gonna do it
[06:46] and i did not listen to the naysayers
[06:51] it's all about the hard work that you
[06:52] put in
[06:53] i said i must have been bodybuilding i
[06:55] worked
[06:56] out five six hours a day i'm gonna do
[06:58] the same thing now for acting
[07:03] and of course i went to college to study
[07:05] english
[07:07] i studied the
[07:09] accent removal
[07:11] acting classes
[07:13] and all of this stuff
[07:15] all day long
[07:16] i worked and i worked in the work
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[07:20] and within a short period of time i made
[07:22] one movie called hercules in new york
[07:25] which of course went right into the
[07:27] toilet
[07:29] but it didn't discourage me i still had
[07:31] the same vision
[07:33] and then all of a sudden i did streets
[07:35] of san francisco
[07:37] i did stay hungry and pumping on
[07:40] and the villain and then all of a sudden
[07:43] i was asked by dino de laurentiis at the
[07:45] universal studio to star in conan the
[07:48] barbarian
[07:51] and after i did conan the barbarian the
[07:54] director at the press conference said to
[07:56] the press
[07:59] the director was john millius
[08:01] he said to the press if we wouldn't have
[08:03] had arnold we would have had to build
[08:05] one
[08:07] so think about that
[08:12] the very body
[08:13] that they said
[08:15] can never be sold because the time is
[08:18] wrong
[08:19] a few years later
[08:21] i'm doing conan the barbarian and it was
[08:23] the number one hit at the box office
[08:25] when it came out
[08:26] in the summer of 82.
[08:29] think about that and the director says
[08:31] if we wouldn't have had his body we
[08:33] would have had to build one
[08:35] so all of a sudden
[08:37] my body became an asset not a liability
[08:40] and the same thing was with terminator
[08:42] after we were finished filming
[08:43] terminator jim cameron said to the press
[08:47] if arnold wouldn't have had that accent
[08:49] and talked like a machine
[08:51] i think the movie wouldn't have
[08:52] worked so think about that
[08:55] the body and the accent that they
[08:58] attacked was an asset
[09:02] but i didn't listen to those losers
[09:05] i didn't listen to them at all it's just
[09:08] the reality of it is that you cannot
[09:10] listen to the naysayers so this is a
[09:12] very important lesson for all of you so
[09:15] when someone says no this is a stupid
[09:17] idea
[09:18] you in your mind you don't have to say
[09:20] but your mind to say this of you you saw
[09:24] what do you know
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