Eric Thomas

You've got to believe in your abilities, your ideas, unquestionably.

You've got to be ignorant to not know what you can't do.

Don't rule anything out for you.

You've got to believe in yourself.

You've got to stand up.

You can't talk out now.

You can't fold now.

See, sometimes you have to talk to yourself.

It might be the most intelligent conversation you will ever have.

That radical change, it doesn't happen overnight.

You can make the decision, but you've got to stay on top of yourself every day to come from and live your life from a place of power, courage, and faith, as opposed to being a volunteer victim, as most people are.

I need you to stand firm the next time you go through a trauma treatment.

People are gonna think you're crazy.

And sometimes you're gonna think you're crazy.

You're gonna question yourself.

It takes guts, ladies and gentlemen, to go through that.

People used to laugh at me in Detroit when I was sleeping on the floor of my office in the Penobscot building.

It was rough, ladies and gentlemen, it was not easy.

When I was laying on the floor looking out of the window, when I was questioning myself, Les, can you do this?

I was questioning myself.