The Importance of Integrity in Personal and Professional Success

Character defines true success, as integrity and hard work build lasting legacies beyond monetary gain.

### The Importance of Character and Integrity in Life and Business
* 🌱 "Always plant the seeds of **hard work and integrity and honor** today, and then every day you **water them and nourish them**."
* 🤝 In negotiations, it's crucial to **maintain your character and not compromise your values for short-term gains**, as true success is built on **integrity**.
* 💔 Many individuals quickly abandon their principles for opportunities, forgetting that **character defines their legacy** and how they will be remembered.
* ⚖ The legal system often prioritizes **money over morality**, but personal judgment and integrity should **guide one's actions in every situation**.
* 🥗 The speaker turned down a lucrative contract with a food company because it conflicted with his personal beliefs about health, demonstrating that **integrity is worth more than financial gain**.
* 🌊 Life's challenges test our character, and true success is measured by **how we respond to these temptations and stay true to ourselves**.
* 🏆 Wealth is not just about money; it is about **living a life of value** and **leaving a legacy based on character** and the **positive impact we have on others**.
* 🌟 Ultimately, success is defined by the **character we build** and the **relationships we cultivate**, not by the **financial rewards we accumulate**.

very serious video blog for you guys, man. There you need to because a person of which wrote this email, which gives birth to this discussion, has to be anonymous. Actually asked not for me to even make it a public video blog, breaking the rules here for the betterment law, but still ironed her request and keeping her anonymous. The email came in as such, in a synopsis form: a girl meets guy, they fall in love, both of just kind of starting their pursuit into whatever they're going to be, both have, you know, some voids to fill together, they filled them, they become stronger as two than they are as individuals. I always see that - that champions come in pairs, a tube is he how do yourself imperfection. That's what happened with these two. She started going well, he started doing well, he started to believe in what he's always believed in because someone backed in, and then what was always [ __ ] right there in front of it for the taking, he finally put one foot in front of it and took it. You knows his cuz he was he.

was that good, but he was always sidelined by his own disbelief. Self-Perales said in he said, I don't think I can do. I don't think I can do it. So, he met someone that believed in him. Together, that belief was strong enough that right [__] love it, great story, and the worst [__] thing happens, man. This is success defines the individual. I always say the individual must always define success. If that is a rationale, success is always in the forefront - had it, always will be had, and keep growing. But as soon as you pump the brakes of life and start to rest on your loins in that comfort zone, which is a danger zone where the success you start to relate to, Yeah, I am this person has done this and done this, meaning past tense, dun dun dun, not doing, then success defines you, and the for progression has stopped. In this situation with this guy and this girl, she lays in bed with a man that she once loved, now lays in bed wondering who

the [ __ ] stranger is next to her because he's changed. I bet this videoblog very passionately got many stories [Music]. I'm going through very deep, very personal. I go through them because they're valuable to tell, and I think there's a lot to learn from my slide is about you guys bettering yourself through my successful through my mistakes. It's the same things before the championship status of two becoming one or mean you guys actually learn from each other, and you know while are in the hard way if you're open enough and strong enough to face a story that you haven't felt. Maybe you can learn without feeling it. Maybe you don't have to feel a pain in order to reap the reward. That's up to you guys beside we're gonna call this thing called the integrity of the industry. The industry of which Amon is a fitness industry. A lot of you guys, some girls, are hard chargers. You know you guys have given her a little ballon effort, really putting out hard work.

bearing those seeds of the day. They'll bear the fruits of your labor tomorrow. Hard work pays the [__] off. It's possible. There's no longer problems. There's situations that if I work hard, I can manipulate to my advantage. You start to make headway. You self-improve your body, your mind-body connection. You're confident. You're uplifting. You're slowly roll back, walking with a purpose. People see that positive energy. Wow, I want to be a part of it. And in society, the shark swimming everywhere that feed off of that because it's very few and far between. As I've seen it before, it even blossoms into something. They come throwing you opportunities and throwing you opportunities. Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god, this is great. This is my big break. That's my big break. And you make a decision based on the opportunity, not peace, a character through your. And when you don't base it on character, those opportunities stop coming. I got many examples to go through. I've already revisited so many my head prior record on this camera on the

tripod staring him in aachen light in front of me like I'm under arrest so emotions just right so I'm gonna do my best to get through this and uh but you guys know the ups and downs of what this great world we live in is let me start it off years ago 20 25 plus years growing up with my dad playing baseball with him we always did a lot of sports you know I was like ah my family on my dad was a hell of an athlete his father was prone to sports and I learned so much on the fields friendly strife you know playing sports and stuff their character their you want to discipline you learn the anxiety pressure who you stand for in the moment when it counts he won't team me to run relationships so much was built upon those fields my dad was a stud he was I'm not saying he looks like the stud meeting he was the ultimate player when she was but he was there for me he's already walked it so as soon as he saw me kind of wondering

what's up, yeah. He was right there, and I'd have to say that he knew it because he's walked it, and he would speak enough and in a way of which I was Cruz stood, and so many lessons I learned at a young age. He told me, and I forget, I mean, eight years old or something. He's like, Later in life, I'm gonna tell you this right now. The business endeavors you go into, the career endeavors, social settings, your relationships, the deciding factor in the future is going to be character. That's gonna be what's lacking in society. No one's gonna have any more. Everyone's gonna sell the [__] out. I didn't know what he meant, Hey, everybody, no. I just didn't know, and it took years of me going through so much stuff in the military, in sports, and the career of which I'm in now, and the ups and the downs of it to understand, really see it so black and white right now, what character really is. I always speak in metaphor quays, so let me give

you a few metaphors right now before I dive into what I've learned along the way and how I practiced it in this industry in hell. I've kept my integrity within me, you know, before I get into that, you know, in negotiations of anything in contract or any deal or anything you want to do in the future, you know, there's opportunities to call me so I could talk to an agent or you sort of talk to the person that wants to pay you for something or whatever, maybe there's a negotiation thing there. You want something, they want something, usually X doesn't get everything they want and Y doesn't get everything they wanted to compromise. So what's the compromise that we're gonna do? Well, my dad was referring to is that somebody that wants this money or this opportunity will compromise a character in that negotiation because they feel that event's more valuable than who they are. I've had many negotiations and I'm always very strong in them and a lot of people think I'm an [__]. I don't

because I am willing to walk away at any point. I'm not defined by them. I love the final of my past. My past has taught me who I am, to be able to evaluate the situation present and imply where I've learned to make the best choice. And that choice is based on character, it's based on morality and integrity, never about financial return, never about monetary value or tangible items. It's always been about the character, the intangible items. Now walk because in Vegas I can't pick up dice called a character and roll hoping it goes my way. I just, that's too much to gamble the metaphoric blessings or think I got two of them for you. One is actually a biblical parable, and it speaks of, um, we'll just make it simple here, two guys. They're building homes, right? They build these amazing homes, man, and all this great, you know, mahogany and travertine, you know, that's the best of the raw materials, and built these castles, these monumental statues that really stand the test of time. And they, the

amazing, and people from afar seal, and they come running up to God, pay homage to a great structure which was built by man. But one of them was built on one surface, and another was built on a different surface. That surface, one was bell tolling on a rock structure, the other one was built on sand. So, the storms of life come with the winds, the rains, and the weather. What happens is suss to erode the foundation of which this amazing structure was built upon. And in the situation of the man that built it on the sand, the sand dissipates. No matter how great that structure is, it crumbles. That's a character, that's the rock, that's what stands the test of time. It can never be built to anything, no career, just like in a gym, guys, a core and a form and everything. It's pivotal to success. There's no sterile you can take to get [ __ ] bigger, faster, because there's a cost to the character, the foundation of which we exist upon. It might stand for a bit, but in the

storms of life which never stop coming. Your structure won't continue to stand. Another little metaphor: they say whatever I [ __ ] say. You know, the only wagons that rattle are the wagons that are hollow. I don't care. I need them. You know [ __ ] does that mean, Greg? Well, let's go back into the old days, man. Lewis and Clark [ __ ] you know the wild, wild west. You know, you have horse and buggy [ __ ] and you're uh, you know, he know paved roads and [ __ ] like it's so comfortable now. It's actually, yeah, actually had to be a man and a woman had to be tough, you know. Now we're all hiding behind in that letter, but um, so you you know usually have a carriage and you have your possessions in there and you're traveling across country in that country is you know not paths travel, the path less traveled, rockier, steeper, not paved paths, you know. And if you have a wagon there and the wagon doesn't have

any weight on it to keep it down right within every little pothole or bump or anything like that. That wheel hits, there's nothing to keep pressure on it, so it just jumps and moves and everything else and rattles and just makes a shitload of noise. But if you were to put like, you know, a hell of a lot of weight on that, then as that wheel goes over a ditch or something, it just, the base of the wheel absorbs it, you know, because those weights on there, you're like, All right, great, what the [ __ ] you talking about? I'm talking about the weight of character, the morality, the intangible value of the individual that really stands. It has a time, that's the weight of the wagon as we're going across country, going across past you hadn't been to, you hide charges and stuff. They're doing the greatest argument, you know, to impress others and upcoming that you with opportunities. That's the unpack travel that you're on, the wilderness where there's bumps and pit holes along

the way do you rattle at every single one, or do you say solid to it because you have weight within yourself? What you speak, you walk, you don't speak words hollow, you back them up with action, you believe in what you're doing, you have confidence, you have character. Who are you? Somebody that stands for nothing, that's so quick to just jump ship, that anything that's popular or anything that has money to it, maybe that kind of person magnet through whatever is out there, not standing for anything. Because if you don't stand for anything, my friend, you fall for everything. There and you're the min of these sharks in this world, feed off of you, had prosperity, you had success, you had opportunity, but you didn't have any [__] character. So when they present it, someone to you, they painted this canvas, it looked all bright, and you've bought into it. You didn't know that Candace was pale and [__]. What happens is when you buy into it, the choices of what you make that you

think right now I had to make right, yeah, they have the fine longevity opportunity to come. I know people in this industry that, uh, you know, so it's getting a child, you know, we're getting whatever anonymous pay, they keep their rent going, and then doing opportunities and auditions and everything else. It's so quick to jump to this thing that maybe they go figure [__] no one's ever gonna see it. It's all good. I'm gonna just do this, get a quick paycheck, and everything else gonna be my rent. I've got to pay my rent. I know a girl called me at one time, and she goes, Hey man, I got the opportunity if his magazine, man. How much did I charge him? I said, I wouldn't charge him [__]. Just show up early, show up in shape, kill it, have a great time with them, build the network, build a relationship, and at the end of the day when they go to invoice you, say, 'Hey, don't need it. Just appreciate the opportunity,' because if

you do that. That opportunity builds a relationship. She cuts me off. She's at least like 300 bucks, 400 bucks. Me, I'm providing myself. You know, I'm providing, you know, the material. Oh, so you know you're the success, huh? Well, if you want to go that way, then go that way. But I'm saying if you do it the way I'm saying, you build a relationship, and that three, four hundred bucks that you haven't paid once gets paid over and over and over and over and over again as opportunities hit. Photographer or the magazine, whatever else they need, somebody who did they call, the caller people that are like, it's called networking. People that show up on time, people that show up in shape, people that are professional on their act, like working with those people because it makes them better too because it's not like some kid at the, they have a babysit. They come in ready, they kill it. It makes them look good, that but shots are good. It's a win-win, but no, you need the money.

right now, so you say yeah, yeah. Oh, by the way, I know we talked about 300. I really, I feel I need 500. When I was sudden, you got 200 bucks you never see again. As soon as you cash that check, that relationship he has cash to never be existed again because that diamond doesn't of you. So when you go up to that photographer later and say, Hey man, or the editor, they a, What do you think but doing something? It's okay, I'll think about it. They always say, Yeah, it sounds great, it sounds great. Inside say, Go [ __ ] yourself, man. Never gonna happen again. They won't tell it to your face though. They'll say, Yeah, sounds good, interesting, real interesting. That's aka [ __ ] off. Say, You know [Music] my examples of which I'm going through right now with this character's been tested at night. A example when I was first starting industry, I had a casting for a jeans company. I'm not going to say [ __ ] I'll say our.

mining exchange big big-budget [ __ ] thing and without to people and so anyway I got that job at the call and casting director. They said, Come over the office man, I got good news for you. You know over there Emily, it was something that he does, hey men, we picked you man, neither one, so congratulations. I'm like, Sweet. He goes, You know it came down to you and the other person, well yeah, it's all the other person, that's cool, you know, let's get competitive, you know, it's good stuff here. So, but I spoke up for you and the reason why you got picked is because of my selling of you. I don't know one right now, appreciate that, thanks for believing in me, you guys. Yeah, so I did that for you, so now what are you gonna do for me? I know I'm gonna make you look good man, I gotta show up and shave, I'm gonna show up professionally, we're gonna kill this thing, and at the end of the day, the company that's hired you, it's gonna say

and do you pick the right people because this looks amazing. Exactly. Warner did everything else delivered. You know, if I can check, doesn't matter what are you gonna do for me personally. I don't think there's anything personally involved here, is there? I know exactly what he is going. I was young still. I was naive to it all. He's like, I need you to do something personally for me. I can't do this. I can't do as much as I want this job, as much as I think I didn't, you know, use this as a platform to build more opportunities from and everything else. You know, at the end of the day, I can't. I don't sell out, man. Meaning like you hired me or supposedly hired me to reform an asset for a company of which hired for you. And now you're trying to get, you know, personal favors or something sexual thing here or what's going, you know. I just can't do that and say, well then you get the [__] out.

[Music] It's gonna shot. I got the [ __ ] up and walked out. I saw the ad like four months later. It's not a guy that got a picture, her hands, the other guy, and I guess he was willing to uh, you know, do some personal favors there, maybe, maybe not. I don't know. I haven't really seen him much more, but let's, regardless, in fact, what I'm trying to say is at the end of the day, you know, I still look at myself the same way. [Music] I can't put that on the table. I can never gamble. That's all I got. That's my name. I interrogate, and I've been someone, I've been around so my biggest sharks in this industry, and you know propositions, some amazing opportunities, but with a call sigh just could never pay. So I couldn't take that. There's a difference between being poor and being rich, and then there's even a bigger difference of being wealthy. Wealthy is life lived. I know a lot of people that are rich in

this life, depressed people that poor, that depressed. I know people that are wealthy, any of the money, you know, financial means is these rich people, but they live a life that these rich people wish they could pay for, but never will. The other example I want to talk about is something that's pretty recent, actually. I mean, I can talk about a lot in saying I talked about this new product that's coming out called meadow ball, and [__] seven years in development and blood, sweat, and tears. And when I say seven years has been, it's been seven [__] years, you know, constant effort every week into this process. So many like Murphy's laws thrown at us, so many ups and downs. So do we say truth to it sometimes holding by a thread, so we're holding by a thread, you know, and it's all we got. We just tie a knot in that [__] and just hold on, and we keep believing in it, believe in it. Finally, it comes to fruition. You get all

These people around us, team people, you know, agents and market people and PR people and everything else. We do a commercial for it, goes really well, has a rating that comes back, that's very successful. They, Hey man, you're ready to go with it. This sounds ready to make some serious coin. I go, I didn't, but I want to make coin, man. I wanna make a difference, you know. I want to build legacy. I want to build something of value here. And they go, Well, no, you will, it's great. I go, Well, you know, in this process of doing this, I've found a few flaws with it, with the product, you know. I thought in a few ways that we, I think, you know, our team didn't improve it. Yeah, they don't worry about them, and this is ready to go right now. Let's make the money now. It's make them right now. I know, I don't, so my name once I sell my name every [__] day and get return of investment. I don't sell it once. I don't.

sell out. I don't put my name to something knowing those flaws to it. I don't understand what you mean. Well, yeah, do you don't need to off. You're fired. Didn't quite go exactly that way, but you know people on the team of us. You know Greg, you always get pissed off there, buddy. I don't have anything else to play. I can't negotiate when they're trying to negotiate against a character of a product that I'm putting my name to and I created. They're looking for money. They don't know what that. Seven years of work. They don't know all the money I put into this. I'm not talking about a few thousand. I put hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of thousands. Blood, sweat, and tears. You can't put a price on 15 years of education, the military, sports, and everything going into a product. There's a few manufacturing things with some plastic in there that wasn't durable enough. I saw some stress.

fractures and stuff. My team saw it, they overlooked it. Don't worry, only a few will see that. Well, their father probably two years down the line. Now, now it's perfect. So now I can put it out there, and it's coming out soon, by the way. You're always gonna be a question with this, and the weird thing is, the more successful you get, the more people coming out of the woodwork and questioning you further. This is which I'm in right now. What I thought was a dear close friend of mine. I'm not gonna bring up names of which right now. I will when the time is right, because I think you guys should understand who this [ __ ] person is. But the synopsis of it all is a dear friend of mine who I put my name on the line and helped out. I'll get him started back up. You know, there's issues that happened in his life. I was there for him. You know, well, for whatever reason, he said some more times financially. He's trying to sue me. A lot of fraudulent.

charges. He's all for a quick settlement because I'm making money now. He's not. So I figured, He'll just sue me. I'll settle because that's how it works. Rent in the US of A, that's how it works. Everyone's so happy. And why are they so happy? Because a prosecutor's zone that's suing somebody doesn't cost him anything. Sue anybody is so usually attorneys if they believe in what you're suing them for. You know, they don't. There's no bills. You don't want to pay for anything. There's gonna get a return of the settlement or return of whatever else. So he makes him a story, insisted this firm, and they believe it. And then any prosecutor, I said, Court orders against me, a friend of his that believed in him when no one else did. And then he's suing me for money. Talk about character. Never, never there. So we fight it, and the lawyer team that he hired realizes a total [__] case fraudulence. The point they might lose.

their ability to practice law because it's that fraudulent. We go into a mediation appointment where they just want to get some money back for all the hours in this [ __ ] case mediation. You sit in one room and another sits in another room and there's a circuit judge that comes, talks to you and talks to them, and you know it says silkie. So it's all about money. It's all about [ __ ] dollars, which I'm out of mouth by the way. I'm not defined by my success. Usually, success is defined by money. Money never defines me. I've been broke, I've been rich, and never waved who the [ __ ] I am in between. That's what this guy did wrong. Not only did he ruin someone that actually cared for him, and so when they gave him a lot of opportunity, he also [ __ ] up thinking I would settle on something like this. Judge tells me, Hey, it could go to court, and you know, could be a year and a half from now.

and everything else, and could cost you, you know, a quarter million dollars. I know I cannot sell out my character, whatever it costs me, and my character is worth more than that. This is if I did wrong. I don't have a problem or something. I make a lot of mistakes; I learn from them. But if I didn't do anything wrong here, I'm not about to sell out just so I spend less money. And why spend less money? What's missing there? So, if it's, you know, a quarter-million dollars, and all I have to pay is X amount, the differential is called character. I disorder. I don't have any. So, he goes, Great, you know, I don't understand why you wouldn't do this. And, you know, they came down in price, and it says it's a good deal. Here I go, the deal's built on sand. By the way, he didn't know. I don't buy that, but you guys might. Now there's no structure of which is solid here, so therefore there is no deal. And he goes, But you could be out of this for a lot

less money. Like, I'm not looking to be out of it because the only way I'm at it is with integrity, honor, character intact. I don't sell, I don't gamble, I don't roll dice on that. This [__] is betting. I will, I will not. I don't care what it costs me 'cause I haven't been that wrong, which is the judge and the jury. It's pitched him the whole [__] story, and after I finished that and win the case, which I will, then I'll destroy this [__] judge. It's like, Yeah, I'm sure you will. Yeah, this is a total crap case, but doesn't really matter what's right or wrong. I go, Oh wow, isn't that funny? It's that [__] judge telling me this, that doesn't matter what's right or wrong. So what he's then telling me is what doesn't matter is who's got more money because money overrides right and wrong in the legal system anyway. I go, I'm fortunate enough to have

the money and the reason why I had the money is because I don't do deals. I don't sell character. The reason why I am the person I am right now, you call it fortune or whatever else, are good blessings. I call it remaining true to myself through all the storms, through all the sunshine, the happy times, and the tears. We may mean honest, making mistakes or learning from them, try not to repeat them. He's like, Well, great, you know, I understand, you know, it's very, you know, uplifting to hear someone like you speak of this. At the end of the day, you know, we have a chance to be out of this. What do you want to do? I grab my bags and walk down. I go tell him I'll see him a year from now, court, and he goes, For excessive, stop. This is stupid. You just wasted your throne, good money at bad. I go, There you go again, talking about money. You're missing everything I'm saying. I'll go, let me break it down for you. Event a few funerals in my life, and if

you know what happens is someone gets up and speaks on a deceased. That's called a eulogy, and every [__] funeral I've been to. I've never heard one say how much money that person, how many cars he had, how many businesses, how many houses. I always hear him say the character of what they stood for, the MFA left some others, or they gave back to society, and what they gave back helped trump tenfold what they ever done, how they were an asset, not a detriment to their neighbor. Those kind of people fill the church, however it is, because people respect him, and even though they're dead, got a legacy, lives on. And I love to that judge in the eye, and I said, You're not gonna rob me of that, nor is this [__] prick. Fact is, I got the money, his keys, five times over. That's what it calls. That's why cause money. I've had and money have lost, build it up again. It doesn't define me. What defines me, I thought my dad built

to me and my mom don't to me. It's the rock of the foundation you build yourself upon a character who you are. That's the wealthiest person in the world sometimes of riches. Warren Buffett said a common he goes the only business technique I employ through every business opportunities. As soon as I see a losing asset no matter what the stakes are I walk. That's losing assets is the financial term assets but assets also are something intangible and morality in character defines that person. He invested X amount of money into a company but he's got on the CEO is cheating on his wife right there. He's thinking well I invested all some money this company and a CEO of that company doesn't respect his wife enough. So how does he not respect my investment of the company now. That's a losing asset I'm out now. Even though I put in a hundred thousand it's not worth another dollar and I'll lose it because I can see it dropping right now. There's no [ __ ] carrot [Music]

they're growing email the lies in bed the person she wants loved and now wonders who the [ __ ] he is has lost his [ __ ] hair [Music] my science teacher seventh grade his name's dr. Malloy just an amazing individual I've never walked into his classroom he's a huge baseball coach tale for false baseball cap with Jimmy jr. as one of his coaches and cooks so many pros and stuff to simmer the lady on the side you a science teacher I have ever walked into this class first time and first thing you said nothing about science he goes we want to take tests here you're gonna take notes and everything else right now you have my trust you have my trust every single one of you what you do with that is up to you my trust is given once and once you break my trust you will never have it again a seventh-grade man remember that [ __ ] yesterday meaning achievement test he catches you that's a disrespect to him yourself everything

else is that tests worth all that, and if it is great, I can't imagine it. [Music] So, you try to make amends, you say you're sorry, years go by, you know you're the character, strong truth from that point for you learn your lesson when everything's on the line, and he's got you or someone else to depend on, because that trust can never be a heart massage. You might get up to 99, but 99% trust to a 100% trust is night and day. That's Little League World Series to Derek Jeter. That's how much of a difference that is, and that's what success is, guys. It's built on character. The individual defines it; it's never defined the other way around. Let me give you another example of that to prove that point. You guys heard of Paul Mitchell hair salon? That was started by two men. I don't know their first names, so I'm gonna make it up here: John Paul and Joe Mitchell. Has to say they started out selling these products out of the trunk of their car. When one

of them passed away. The other one kept the name, kept that belief, and maybe was motivated by the passing of his partner and made it into the household name we all know: Paul Mitchell hair salon. I don't know how much money that makes or still makes, or whatever is along the way. He had a hobby he really liked to do: distill tequila, you know, make the kilo on his own, you know, that was his thing. And unless we did in some spare time, he's an alcoholic, but he'd like that, the chemistry of it all on me. So he made it and tasted it and stuff, and you know, it's something he did, how I mean woodworking and stuff. It was therapeutic, yet people come over his house and stuff, and they go, Mess really good, sell this stuff. So he did, that's Patron, the number one selling tequila, which makes like, what, $10 to have you one dollop, whole me joins, so much more successful than the hair follicle on I'm people. A, it's so weird that

individual that's so successful, and you know inherent beauty is so successful in alcohol and liquor. I go, Why is that [ __ ] weird? Because the blueprints of successful business are the same, no matter what the endeavor is: hard work, perseverance, all these types of characters, you know, right business models, right financing, everything else. It's the same blueprint with our later on and Paul Mitchell, while I layer on Uber, where I lay it on, you know, Patron. It's the same fundamental framework, same with the person itself. The company of Paul Mitchell hair salon hit tragedy; his partner died. The individual believed it and kept it going. Perseverance created a company. No one knew that held that name was now a lot of people bank off that name, but initially, is it somebody believed in it? He created that. He believed that, and he created it. He's the same techniques, had a passion for something else, put the same techniques towards a passion, and created another multi-billion dollar company. Probably [Music] never selling out, never an opportunity.

so great that's worth destroying friendship Network and most importantly the foundation of which if structures built upon the character of who you are. What is a eulogy? They're gonna say your funeral. Who's gonna show up to it? You never know, but you get to 100% and from the results of that day. You're never ensued your actions every day up to it anyway. I wish I could say the name. I'll write you an email, man. I appreciate you writing in. I hope I've answered your question. I do hope you show this to your boyfriend and the paths that we travel. Guys are never smooth because always rocks in the way. There's always ways of breaking water and himself which we set forth. It's supposed to be that way because that's what leads shorelines known. There are been too unsure possibilities. [Music] It never becomes you believe it. We first start in this example, this guy and girl and love each other. Neither one was worth a [ __ ] seemed like until they found each other and I felt belief in.

one another. We believed themselves, and they started something. Why were they so quick to just throw it away? We could have been down that path if we stayed true to ourselves. There's gonna be opportunities where, as you know, in this world's a devil, Devil's Den, man, there's temptation everywhere. And I'm not a real religious man. I'd pray to the person I believe in. I try to live along the strategies with which, and you know, I've been, I've learned to his practices. I tried to treat others like I want to be treated, enslave the Golden Rule. I talked to my childhood Church so much. I think that's just, you know, a human big business, you know. I don't, I think the Lord's everywhere, and he's definitely in these moments of temptations. There's a test to you, and at the end of those moments where I'm thinking about it, I'm also thinking about later in life who's judging me, and am I trying to make money to make somebody else impressed, overriding the

individual judgment of my own self knowing I got that money doing something that don't believe him ultimately if I overpass my own judgement it doesn't matter and I overpass his judgment that's the ultimate judgment right. I had an opportunity to sponsor the spokesperson and equity owner of a company. It's a food company. They do pretty packaging food and stuff. Great company, successful, really cornerstone a niche and a great financial return with the contract and everything else. The problem is I only eat a meal a day. Their mentality is that you eat these four and five smaller meals and it's delivered to your house. It goes against what I believe in. Even though that was a six and possibly seven-figure deal, I could not sign that contract because I don't believe in that. It hasn't gotten me to where I am. You know, planning covers and my physique. I don't. I can't sell that to somebody else and expect them to transform their body because I don't believe that is the philosophy of success and transformation. You know, in a physical state and they're

like, oh, we can modify them, Greg, and do them different way, this way, that way. I go, now you are changing your morality and mission statement now to get me on board, so therefore you just let me know that your whole product is about a name and money and not about beliefs. I cannot be part of it even more now. They don't understand what I'm saying. I know. I wish you would. The world would be a better place if everyone just walked their talk. I never sold out when I found a true friend. They backed that friend. They needed help knowing their back then - not the other way around. I take advantage going off on a tangent here and definitely getting long. It's character, guys. Integrity of industry. What equals success in this industry has built on the rock of character, of who you are and what you do today. The job you take today will either be a deterrent, destruction, or the highlight of what's to come. But don't ever sell out for the temper reward of what the opportunity is today. Believe in the bigger picture. Believe

that all these things are just moments building the wave for the big moment to come. Always plant the seeds of hard work and integrity and honor today, and then every day you water them and nourish them. Believe in them. One day they'll sprout a flower of which, when you're dead and gone, people will still remember my scraplet. Thanks for watching.

Greg Plitt - Character: The Integrity Missing in the Industry

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The Importance of Character and Integrity

The speaker emphasizes the significance of character and morality, comparing it to the weight that keeps a wheel steady over bumps.

They refuse to sell out their character for financial gain, believing that true fortune comes from remaining true to oneself through life's challenges.

The speaker shares personal stories of perseverance and the importance of integrity in building a successful life and career.

The Importance of Character in Building Opportunities

The speaker discusses the struggle of making quick money in the entertainment industry while trying to build a career.

They emphasize the value of showing up, building relationships, and appreciating opportunities without expecting immediate payment.

The speaker shares personal experiences and lessons learned about the importance of character in business and relationships, highlighting that true success is built on a strong foundation of integrity.

The Impact of Money on Success and Character

The speaker reflects on a fraudulent legal case and the mediation process, emphasizing the focus on money rather than true success.

They share their personal journey of being both broke and rich, highlighting that money does not define their identity.

The speaker critiques the individual's unethical behavior and the common practice of suing for quick settlements, ultimately revealing the fraudulent nature of the case.

The speaker reflects on the influential role of their seventh-grade science teacher, Dr.

Malloy, who emphasized the importance of trust.

Growing up, the speaker learned valuable life lessons and discipline through sports, with their father's support.

The speaker's journey into the professional world involved a successful commercial and a casting director's belief in them, leading to a competitive and impactful career.

The story of Paul Mitchell hair salon's success is rooted in the character of its founders, John Paul and Joe Mitchell, who started by selling products from their car.

One of the founders, motivated by personal struggles, later became the creator of Patron tequila, which surpassed the salon's success.

The speaker emphasizes that true success is built on character and relationships, rather than money or material possessions.

Success in business follows a common blueprint: hard work, perseverance, and the right business model.

Personal tragedies and a strong belief in one's vision can drive individuals to create multi-billion dollar companies.

Integrity and character are crucial for long-term success, and selling out for short-term gains can lead to missed opportunities and damaged relationships.

The Importance of Personal Belief and Integrity

The speaker declined a lucrative sponsorship deal with a food company because their meal philosophy contradicted their own beliefs.

They emphasize the difference between being rich and being wealthy, with true wealth being defined by character and integrity.

The speaker believes in the power of partnerships and mutual support for personal growth, and they prioritize moral values over financial gain in their decision-making.

The Importance of Integrity and Hard Work

The speaker emphasizes the significance of planting seeds of hard work, integrity, and honor for future success.

They discuss the challenges of negotiations and the temptation to compromise character for opportunities.

The speaker advocates for staying true to oneself, treating others with respect, and maintaining strong moral values to navigate through life's temptations and achieve lasting success.