David Solomon

And, you know, keeping those people, you know, in your life, investing in those relationships because life gets busy and you go in different directions.

Um, but you know, keeping the compass pointed at true North, taking a long-term view, understanding that you're going to get knocked down, but you get up, you learn from the experience, you dust yourself off and you know, you just do the best you can do.

And life throws a lot of things at you that are out of your control, but be patient, take a long-term view, keep the compass pointed at your loved ones, your family, your friends, and

And, you know, do the right thing.

If you keep that stuff in balance, there'll be ups and downs.

But, you know, I think there's lots of joy, you know, that comes out of the kind of the success of a job well done is to do it and to do it well and to have the personal satisfaction for raising a family, for building a career, for having success and also.

when you fail from learning from the failing and being able to kind of look ahead and take the learnings and do even better and constantly try to self-improve.

You know, on that question, one of the things I just reflect on that I just think is interesting, when I graduated in 1984, we were worried about affordability.

We were worried about getting jobs.

I remember when I graduated, a very significant portion of, if I looked at the people I graduated from school with did not have jobs in the summer after we graduated.

You know, we all went out into the world and we figured out how we're going to make a dollar, how we're going to participate.

You know, it wasn't it wasn't so simple that everybody had jobs.

And, you know, the world was the world was different, you know, then.

And the expectations were, you know, were different.

So.

You know, when I look at young people today, I mean, a couple of pieces of advice that are simple.

I still think that hard work matters.

I still think commitment and sacrifice matters.

I still think showing up, being present, and building connectivity and relationships with people directly matters.

I think understanding that nothing comes easy and anything that's worthwhile in life requires hard work, investment, commitment, and sticking with it for a period of time.