- For 20 years, I'd worked
to realize my dream. Things don't happen overnight. If you need to be a
rebel, make sure you win. If you're going to be a revolutionary, then fight for what you truly believe in. Success, what you want to speak about, is born out of arrogance. People thinkin' they're good. But greatness comes from humility. - He's a British chef, restauranteur and television personality. He has been dubbed, "The
First Celebrity Chef." He was, at the time, the youngest chef to receive three Michelin stars. He's Marco Pierre White. And here's my take on his
top 10 rules for success. And as always, guys, when
you're watching the videos, if you hear something that
really resonates with you, please leave it down
in the comments below. And put quotes around it, so other people can be inspired as well. Also, as you are writing something down it's much more likely to
stick in your head too. Enjoy. - My head chef, Robert Reed said to me, "So, where do we go from here, Marko?" And I said to him, "When I was a young boy, "Mr. Reed used to tell
me abour a restaurant "in Paris called La Serre,
which was the ultimate, "because it had three stars in Michelin "and five red knives and forks." I said, "We got three stars "and four black knives and forks. "Let's go for five red knives and forks." For the next three years we pushed and we pushed and we pushed and we did everything. In January '98, we won our three stars with
five red knives and forks. I'd realized my dream
all those years later. And that dream I had
when I was 17 years old, I was now 37 years old, so, for 20 years I'd
worked to realize my dream. Things don't happen overnight. You have to make the emotional,
the personal investment to make your dreams come true. Many people have condemned
me for being controversial. I was never controversial. As I've always said, most of my reputation is the product of
exaggeration and ignorance. Did I shout? Yes I did. But, I led from the front. I nailed my colors to the mast. I fought for my profession. If you're going to be a
rebel, make sure you win. If you're going to be a revolutionary, then fight for what you truly believe in. And that's all I ever did. And the boys behind me, they followed me. My father sent me to Harrogate,
which was a spa town, and told me to find a job. The most daunting task in my life. And I went to Harrogate and I found a job at the Hotel St. George in Harrogate. And I started there on
the 20th of March, 1978. It wasn't great food, but what they taught me was how to push, how to run, how to be consistent, because consistency is
born out of discipline. How never to be late. How to go to work when
you're not feeling well and let the chef send you home. Success is born out of luck. It's an awareness of mind that takes advantage of that opportunity. You'll all be confronted with opportunity. You must take advantage of it, because, if you don't take
advantage of your opportunity, you'll never realize your dreams. Whether you want them
or not is irrelevance. You don't know that until you achieve it. I think what gave me the drive to succeed was my insecurities. Reading, writing, struggling. It gave me that individual
drive to prove myself, because I'd been belittled at school. I've never been taken serious. I was always looked upon as
being a fool, as being stupid. So, it was the fuel behind me, and that's what made me work far harder, was to prove to my father
and other individuals, including several teachers, that, you know, maybe I struggled
with reading and writing, but I had and possess
other great qualities. So, had I been dealt with as a child, I may never had the energy or the fuel to drive me to get to where I got. I'm not a celebrity, I'm not a talent, I'm no one special, I'm like
everyone else in this world. What I crave is ordinary,
which I said to you earlier, is I come to work and I do my job, and my job today, really, if I'm honest, is inspiring the young, like
having the catering students come and visit me this afternoon and show me respect and kindness. And I only hope that my
stories and my philosophies and my thoughts inspire them. The last thing I said to them today is a story is more
important than a recipe. A recipe can confuse you,
but a story can inspire you. When I was a young boy, I had that privilege
of working with people like the great Michael
Lawson at The Box Tree. The great owners of The Box
Tree, Mr. Reed and Mr. Long. Ken Lamb the baker. Albert Pierre Kalfon,
the great Ramon Balan. What did they really teach me? Was how to tell stories. How to inspire people. That's what's important. I've had lots of bad luck in my life. But, I think having bad luck
is equally as important. Because, when you have bad luck in life, you have to reflect, you have to take the knowledge
from that experience. We've all been treated badly. We've all made mistakes. We've all had bad luck. So, what we have to do is reflect, take the knowledge from the experience, and then allow it to enrich our life. It's as simple as that. And, let's be honest, when people do you have any
regrets Marco, I say, "No." Because had it not been for
all those mistakes I made I wouldn't have the
knowledge that I have today, I wouldn't have the
experience that I have today, because mistakes are fine as long as you take the
knowledge from the mistake. And, so, the one thing my father gave me, which is really key, was that work ethic. That ability to get
myself up in the morning no matter how tired I was to push myself through
those pain barriers. And, again, the combination
of the loss of a mother at six and, then, being sent out to work at 10, I mean, started work at
five o'clock in the morning through the milk round, being dropped off at 8:45
at school in the milk van, you know, that work ethic, so, that combination of those two, work ethic and great insecurity was what got me to where I went to. I turned my dream into reality. But, sometimes reality is
not what you think it is. Winning three stars was the most exciting journey of my life. Then, the day comes where
you're king of your world. And people views of you now change, because you're up there, and you have to play a systematic game. It's a formula. You just roll out the same
dishes day in, day out. And then, you know, I sat down one day and thought to myself, "Do I really want to do this anymore? It's not pleasurable." And, so, I sat down and
I thought to myself, "What are my options?" My first option was to continue
working six days a week, between 80 and 100 hours a week. My second option, live a lie. Pretend I cook when I don't cook. My third option was to pluck
up the courage from within, to give back my stars, to abdicate from my position, to accept that tomorrow I'm
unemployed, I have no status. But, what do I have? I have an opportunity to
discover myself as a person and to let go of everything
that I've ever worked for, to let go of my status, to walk away from my dream
is a very tough decision. And, one day, a little thought
just drifted into my mind. And that little thought was that I am being judged by people who have less knowledge than me. So, what is it all worth? Very little. And, so, that's what gave
me the courage to walk away. You have to fight the ego every day. The ego is the most
extraordinary part of us, because, when we think we've suppressed it and we've beaten it, it manifests itself into
another form and another shape and starts to take you over again. And, so, every day you
have to fight the ego and allow the humility to
come through, in my opinion, and, by allowing humility to come through, because, let's be honest, success, which you want to speak about, is born out of arrogance. People thinkin' they're good. But, greatness comes from humility. And, being successful is not good enough. It's all about being great
at whatever we go in life. You can have the most
humble job in the world, but you can be truly great. You can be a humble guy, but
you can be a great person. - Thank you guys so much for watching. I made this video because
Ian Atkins asked me to. So, if there's a famous entrepreneur that you want me to profile next, leave it down in the comments below and I'll see what I can do. I'd also love to know what did Marco say that had the biggest
impact on you and why. What did you learn from this video that you're going to
immediately apply to your life or to your business? Leave it in the comments
and I'll see what I can do. Finally, I want to give a quick shout out to Anastasia Zinchenko, thank you so much for
picking up a copy of my book, Your One Word, and making that awesome
YouTube video on it as well. I really, really, really
appreciate your support. - Believe in yourself,
believe in your abilities, and believe in your future. - So, thank you guys again for watching. I believe in you. I hope you continue to believe in yourself and whatever your one word is. Much love, I'll see you soon.
