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Commencement Speeches
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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That's what building a body of work is all about, it's about the daily labor, the many individual acts.
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The one thing I know about a body of work is that it's never finished. It's cumulative.
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Colonel Sanders didn't open up his first Kentucky Fried Chicken until he was in his sixties.
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Winston Churchill was dismissed as little more than a has-been, who enjoyed scotch a little bit too much, before he took over as Prime Minister and saw Great Britain through its finest hour.
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Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you, that also creates ripple effects.
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Truth be told, I never graduated from college. And this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation.
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I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another eighteen months or so before I really quit.
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I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition.
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So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made.
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