[0:00]In order to be successful, and you people are well on the road to success. You have to find out what makes you excited, what makes you want to get up each morning and go to work. You have to find it.
[0:22]If you love what you do and dedicate yourself to your work, then you will gain momentum and look. You have to, you need the word momentum. You will gain that momentum and each success will create another success. The word momentum. I'll tell you a story that's very interesting for me, when I was young, there was a man named William Levitt, Levittowns. You have some here, you have some in different states, anybody ever here of Levittown? And he was a very successful man, became unbelievably, he was a home builder, became an unbelievable success. And got more and more successful, and he'd build homes and at night he'd go to these major sites with teams of people, and he'd scour the sites for nails and sawdust and small pieces of wood, and they'd clean the sites so when the workers came in the next morning, the sites would be spotless and clean. And he did it properly, and he did this for 20 years, and then he was offered a lot of money for his company. And he sold his company for a tremendous amount of money at the time especially. This is a long time ago, sold his company for a tremendous amount of money, and he went out and bought a big yacht and he had a very interesting life. I won't go anymore than that because you're Boy Scouts, so I'm not gonna tell you what he did. Should I tell you? Should I tell you?
[2:05]Oh, you Boy Scouts, but you know life, you know life. So, look at you, who would think this is the Boy Scouts, right? So he had a very, very interesting life. And the company that bought his company was a big conglomerate, and they didn't know anything about building homes, and they didn't know anything about picking up the nails and the sawdust and selling it and the scraps of wood. This was a big conglomerate based in New York City, and after about a 10 year period, they were losing a lot with it, it didn't mean anything to them and they couldn't sell it. So they called William Levitt up, and they said, would you like to buy back your company? And he said, yes, I would. He so badly wanted, he got bored with this life of yachts and sailing and all of the things he did in the South of France and other places. You won't get bored, right? You know, truthfully, your workers, you'll get bored too, believe me. Of course, having a few good years like that isn't so bad. But what happened is, he bought back his company, and he bought back a lot of empty land, and he worked hard on getting it zoning, and he worked hard on starting to develop, and in the end he failed and he failed badly. Lost all of his money, he went personally bankrupt, and he was now much older, and I saw him at a cocktail party. And it was very sad because the hottest people in New York were at this party. It was the party of Steve Ross, Steve Ross who was one of the great people, he came up and discovered, really founded Time Warner. And he was a great guy, he had a lot of successful people at the party, and I was doing well so I got invited to the party. I was very young, and I go in, but I'm in the real estate business, and I see a hundred people, some of whom I recognize and they're big in the entertainment business, and I see sitting in the corner was a little old man, who was all by himself, nobody was talking to him. I immediately recognized that that man was the once great William Levitt of Levittown. And I immediately went over, I wanted to talk to him more than the Hollywood show business communications people. So I went over and talked to him and I said, Mr. Levitt, I'm Donald Trump. He said, I know, said, Mr. Levitt, how are you doing? He goes not well, not well at all, and he explained what was happening and how bad it's been and how hard it's been. And I said, what exactly happened, why did this happen to you, you're one of the greats ever in our industry. Why did this happen to you? And he said, Donald, I lost my momentum. I lost my momentum. A word you never hear when you're talking about success when some of these guys that never made 10 cents they're on television giving you things about how you're going to be successful, and the only thing they ever did was a book and a tape. But I tell you, I'll tell you, it was very sad and I never forgot that moment and I thought about it, and it's exactly true, he lost his momentum. Meaning, he took this period of time off long years, and then when he got back, he didn't have that same momentum. In life, I always tell this to people, you have to know whether or not you continue to have the momentum. And if you don't have it, that's okay, because you're going to go on and you're going to learn and you're going to do things that are great, but you have to know about the word momentum. But the big thing, never quit, never give up, do something you love. When you do something you love, as a scout, I see that you love it. But when you do something that you love, you'll never fail, what you're going to do is give it a shot again and again and again, you're ultimately going to be successful. And remember this, you're not working, because when you're doing something that you love, like I do. Of course, I love my business but this is a little bit different, who thought this was going to happen, we're having a good time, we're doing a good job. Doing a good job. But when you do something, when you do something that you love, remember this, it's not work. So you'll work 24/7, you're gonna work all the time, and at the end of a year, you're not really working, you don't think of it as work. When you're not doing something that you like, or when you're forced into do something that you really don't like, that's called work, and it's hard work and tedious work. So, as much as you can, do something that you love, work hard and never, ever give up and you're going to be tremendously successful, tremendously successful.
