Howie Mandel
speaker
241 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Dec 2023
last heard May 2025
Howie Mandel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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How he continues to play big behind the scenes. Whatever I believe it takes to be successful in one word, that one word is yes. I think we have too many no's and no is spelled N-O, which is the first two letters of the word nothing. the key now for success across all businesses is one word and it comes from social media and that's
I follow you.
I was so interested in you because I love, I believe just being entrepreneurial is, as a good friend of mine told me, do you know who Robert Greenberg is? Yes. Robert Greenberg is a good friend of mine.
i'm sorry i'm contractually i have to hold up a sketchers but he owns sketchers he said it's a sport you know it is it is and and making money and trying to be successful like that is is a fun game that even if i am not in the shape you're in i could play the game yeah and sometimes score a goal
Just being successful. And I think just being successful in whatever it is that you pursue, I think, and I said this to somebody before, if I could tie up whatever I believe it takes to be successful in one word, that one word is yes. And I think we have too many no's. And no is spelled N-O, which is the first two letters of the word nothing. Nothing comes from no. Yes, even if yes
lead you into a failure, that's a piece of education. That's an experience. That's a path that you won't travel down again. But no gets you nothing. So I've said yes to everything I am not doing or existing in a place that I ever dreamed I would be.
know even geographically yeah yeah yeah you know me too yeah yeah so and i think it's just as human beings and i think everybody has the capability i believe that as a human being instinct is king yeah the problem with what we do is instinctually we know what we're drawn toward and then intellectually we think about it and if you think about it
There is so many reasons why not to go with your instinct. And most people are where they are in life because they overthought. And I don't think there's anybody alive your age or my age that doesn't have a shoulda, coulda, woulda. And if you could minimize your shoulda, coulda, wouldas, I think you'd be further ahead.
I'm not goal-oriented. I don't believe in a goal. To me, in my mind, to me, if you set a goal, there's your goal. And this is just semantics. But then you're aware that you're not there. And you're spending your time and your effort. That makes it more negative. Everything that I've ever achieved in life, and where I am now isn't where I planned to be.
And I don't know that you planned to be this. So what you do instinctually in the moment, you know, you go, I feel like putting my left foot in front of my right. I'm going to do that. I'm going to put my right foot in front of my left. I'm going to do that. I'm going to put my left foot in front of that. And then you end up here. Now, I wasn't standing here going, I want to be here.
I was enjoying putting my left foot. By the same token, I got dared in the mid 70s. I'm not an athlete. I'm not good at sports. I don't drink. I don't play cards. I don't gamble. In the mid 70s, disco was big. I'm not part of the disco era. In my hometown of Toronto, Canada, they opened up a comedy club and I just went to the comedy club to watch the show.
The guy, the people that I was sitting with or the guy that was the host of the show was Yuck Yuck's comedy.
uh club mark breslin said at midnight if anybody wants to try this yep well you get five minutes at midnight and somebody at my table went you should go up i went okay and i don't think of ramifications and what was the i'm not a comedian so what do i have to lose yep and i thought it would be funny if somebody went ladies and gentlemen howie mandel and it
They went, ladies and gentlemen, how I met. And then I had nothing, nothing. And nothing but terror of all these strange people just staring at me. And they were staring at me and I didn't know what to do. And I have a rubber glove because I carry rubber gloves because I have OCD and I didn't want touching. I put it over my head and I blew it up and it popped off.
And that became, you're too young to know, but that bought me my first house. They said, come back tomorrow night and do it, come back. And I just took...
incoming calls yeah my intellect told me that this is not a living this is not but i wanted to get married i've been married for 45 years i have three kids three grandchildren i was already with my girlfriend i was engaged i wanted to be able to support her so my favorite game growing up was monopoly yeah mine too so wow we have so much in common you know did you ever play chess
i i do i i i do but it's so strategy yeah and then but and and you don't i always say to people you know i don't have a ged you know the g yeah yeah you live in america i don't have a i didn't go to i got thrown out of high school later on i in my 40s i got diagnosed but i have severe adhd every time somebody gave me a job in this business and even to this day
I truly don't think this is going to get me someplace or it's going to get me my next job. So I've always been of the mind. to make whatever I get work for me. I read a book years ago. Do you know Rich Dad, Poor Dad? I do, Robert, yeah. I love that. Yeah, it's great. Now, I don't know that it's the best book, but it is the best theory. It's great.
And every dollar that comes your way, think of that dollar as an employee. A lot of people take that money and they go, what can I buy? I take that money and go, what can I make? My wife got mad at me when I made my first, $10,000 when we were here. I bought a term deposit, a CD, a term deposit at 12%. And I had $600 left in the bank. And we were watching, I landed a series called Saint Elsewhere.
That's where Denzel Washington and me came out of the same, that's where we both started on television. I had a black and white TV. I wouldn't spend any money on anything. I didn't buy anything. I was so cheap, but it wasn't cheap. I just thought like, if I'm out here, I don't know anybody out here. People are giving me jobs pretending, you know, I'm going to pretend like I have money.
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