Distinguished guests, presidents and vice presidents, dear friends, my mom and Mary and I and our families, thank you for being here to honor the good and great man we loved so much. A few years ago, reflecting back on nearly 40 years in public service, Dick Cheney said this. The path I had traveled was partly due to the circumstance of my birth. Not that I had been born into a powerful or privileged family. I wasn't. But I was born an American. A blessing surely among life's greatest. My dad thought deeply ...

Thank you, Karen. It's all about boiled eggs. At least it was for me in the 1970s and 80s uh growing up in the north of England.Uh when I came home from school in the evening, uh this was my tea time. And for those uneducated amongst you, tea time in the north of England, 1978s had nothing to do with drinking tea. It was your dinner time.And indeed, as I came home and I had my egg with the little pieces of toasted bread there, which are soldiers, I'd be dipping my uh soldiers in my egg and listening to who. ...

Entrepreneurial Journey & Resilience - The speaker's initial entrepreneurial attempt involved trading oil, aiming for a 150万 (1500000) naira profit on a 350万 (3500000) naira deal, but resulted in debt and arrest [5][6] - The speaker faced significant financial setbacks, including an 1800万 (18000000) naira debt and imprisonment after losing a tanker of oil worth 400万 (4000000) naira and discovering a 5000万 (50000000) naira loss due to theft [11][12] - The speaker emphasizes the importance of grit, defined as blending experience with courage and embracing vulnerability, as a key legacy for entrepreneurs [15][16] Business & Legacy Building - The speaker highlights the importance of building a legacy through a story that inspires, teaches, creates, and fosters collaboration [19][20] - The speaker suggests that adversity and failures are opportunities for growth and can lead to greater success [13][20] - The speaker's real estate project in Allesa is valued at 1000亿 (100000000000) naira, demonstrating a significant turnaround from previous financial struggles [21] Overcoming Adversity & Achieving Success - The speaker emphasizes the importance of continuous learning and self-improvement, advocating for studying business and success to become successful [14] - The speaker draws inspiration from Thomas Edison's perseverance, highlighting his 10,000 failed experiments as a testament to not accepting failure as an outcome [25] - The speaker notes that companies like Airbnb, Uber, and WhatsApp were founded during recessions, suggesting that economic downturns can be fertile ground for innovation [23]

Life isn't shaped by the big moments. It's sculpted by the thousands of tiny decisions you barely notice. It's 2007. I'm 23 and I feel like I don't matter. Most days I wake up anxious. Not just stressed, but that kind that makes it hard to breathe. I drink too much. I zone out. And I'm afraid that one day I'm going to look back and realize I was invisible in my own life. Then comes a Tuesday. I'm home visiting my parents. The coffee pot's brewing. The sunlight spills across the counter. Everything feels rou ...

Life isn't shaped by the big moments. It's sculpted by the thousands of tiny decisions you barely notice. It's 2007. I'm 23 and I feel like I don't matter. Most days I wake up anxious. Not just stressed, but that kind that makes it hard to breathe. I drink too much. I zone out. And I'm afraid that one day I'm going to look back and realize I was invisible in my own life. Then comes a Tuesday. I'm home visiting my parents. The coffee pot's brewing. The sunlight spills across the counter. Everything feels rou ...

[Music] [Applause] Life isn't shaped by the big moments. It's sculpted by the thousands of tiny decisions you barely notice. It's 2007. I'm 23 and I feel like I don't matter. Most days I wake up anxious. Not just stressed, but that kind that makes it hard to breathe. I drink too much. I zone out. And I'm afraid that one day I'm going to look back and realize I was invisible in my own life. Then comes a Tuesday. I'm home visiting my parents. The coffee pot's brewing. The sunlight spills across the counter. E ...

Every culture on earth has music. It's the lullabi we sing our children at night. It's our anthems during times of war and protest. And it's the hymns we sing softly during our times of grief.To experience music is to be human. The ancient Greeks actually used music and the performance of music as a way to test an individual's character. So, you're in luck.If you have not had your your character judged publicly by your musical prowess, there is a piano in the lobby and I should be finished in about 7 to 8 m ...

The two most important days in your life is one the day you're born the day you find out why by Mark Twain. I was born and raised in a small town rural town in South Georgia. There were no street lights. There were no traffic lights. There were no neighborhoods.And if I could sum it up, there were plenty of dirt roads. There were miles of fields. There was grandma's country cooking. There was church every Sunday.And there was a lot of hard work to do. Finding my why would come many years later after I reali ...

"I want my legacy to be that I didn't forget us, that I made sure to reach back to provide a helping hand."@stephenasmith, host of The Stephen A. Smith Show and First Take, spoke about his legacy at the 2025 #ForbesBLKSummit in Atlanta, Georgia. https://t.co/WT9EwZEiyD https://t.co/e8KBs5qcxx ...

Only death could silence Jane Goodall and her passionate defense of the environment. We got a window of time to start healing some of this harm we've done to the environment. At 91, passing away from natural causes while on a speaking tour in California after a lifetime of advocacy, starting with her beloved chimpanzees in 1960.With little scientific training, she went to Tanzania and changed the way we look at these great apes by doing everything the scientific community then thought was wrong. They were t ...