- Last year I spoke at
the Salt Convention. The Salt Convention is where billionaires from around the world gather. They gather in Vegas once a year to talk about how they're
gonna change the world. There's a couple hundred
billionaires in this world. They all come to Las Vegas
once a year to Salt Convention. I was asked last year to
be the keynote speaker. And I'm trippin' because
I'm not a billionaire. And I ask the guy who asked me to do it, I said I'm not a billionaire,
you do understand that? He said Mister Harvey we
know everything about you, we know your net worth and everything. I said well what can
you all learn from me? He said everything. He said the reason we
wanna hear your story is because the majority of
us that are billionaires, we inherited some money, and we grew it. A couple of us inherited a
billion, we automatically. Some of us inherited 300 million, and we turned it into a billion. You come from nothing. What we wanna know is how
you got to where you are after coming from nothing. How did you live in a car for three years and wind up on more TV shows than anybody? How did you survive
flunking out of school? How did you survive all of that? We wanna know that. Because in case something happens to us, we don't really have the
information that you have. On how to come from the back to the front. Or how to come from the bottom to the top. So I get asked oftentimes to speak. What I told them was really compelling. Because they almost had to never hear it, because they never had to learn it. See if you've never been in the bottom, there's some stuff you
ain't never had to know. But all of you that
have been in the bottom, you know it all too well don't you? So when I was telling them how I made it, I was telling them about the
fortitude that I developed, and then I told 'em about
the faith that I had. And that was really startling to them. Now a lot of them are people of faith, but a lot of people who were
born with a lot of money ain't really had to have a lot of faith. You understand? You have an idea of what it feels like. You've seen some kids
get put in foster care. You've seen child protective services come to somebody's house. You've seen kids come to school with less. You might have been one of the kids that went to school with less. You have struggled to give
your kids a better life than the one you had. They don't hear this. But I'm gonna tell you
something right now. You can be successful
without an education. You can be successful without
coming from a rich family. You can be successful, I
don't care what color you are, what faith you belong to, your sexual preference, I don't
care what's wrong with you. You can be successful. I'm gonna tell you flat out, you have got to tie your
existence to your creator. If you don't tie who you are to God, I got news for you, you're
gonna forever struggle. Now, what I'm telling you is
something you can do today. You ain't gotta go to
school to get this one. You ain't gotta have
no meeting with nobody. I'm telling you that if you solidify a relationship with God, you ain't gotta ask nobody's permission, you ain't gotta check-in,
he ain't got no line. You can go and form
this relationship today, this evening when you get home. (applause) Listen man, you can shortcut this. I ain't got no education,
I flunked out of school. I'm on my third marriage. I lost everything I ever owned twice. I had a severe stuttering
problem growing up. I've been picked and teased my whole life. I've been homeless and lived
in a car for three years. What you fittin' to tell me? That I don't know 'bout him. I will tell you what God can do. He can do anything. God can pick you up when
you at your lowest moment. God can take your existence
and turn it around. Now listen to me, I ain't no preacher, I'm a street cat. You understand, I'm not a good Christian. I'm a Christian, you know, (laughing) but at best I'm an entry level Christian. I don't do advanced Christianity. Like on a scale of one to
10, I'm probably like a two. But I got news for you, that's all you got to be. Because you know why? 'cause there's none perfect, no not one. There are no perfect people. (applause)
