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You're a liar.
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I was about 14 years old.
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My father came outside, and I was shooting hoops in the driveway, and the day before,
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I got grounded for lying, and he came outside,
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I wanna talk to you,
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and my dad is kind of a force.
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He looked at me, and he said, "Look, yesterday, you lied."
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I said, "I know, Dad, I'm sorry."
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He goes, "No, no, we're not here to talk about that.
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"We're here to talk about some truths that I need to give you."
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"I always told you if you lied, you wouldn't be successful in life, and that just isn't the truth."
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"Out of all my kids, you're the one that I have absolutely no doubt will be successful in life,
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but you're a liar,
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and you're gonna know it, and I'm gonna know it,
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and that's just the way it is,"
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and I just broke down crying.
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I went in the house later, and I said,
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"Look, I thought about it, and I'm gonna go through life,
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and I'm gonna be a man of integrity,
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and it might be harder to be successful,
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but I'm not gonna be a liar,
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and I'm gonna show you that I'm gonna have integrity in everything that I do,"
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and he smiled at me,
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and he goes, "Good decision."
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(inspirational music)
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My dad was a refugee in the United States from Hungary,
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and my grandparents were Holocaust survivors.
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Both of them just really fought for everything that they got,
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and I felt very guilty that I was the first person in my family to grow up with any kind of means.
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In a weird way, it kinda put a chip on my shoulder
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that I wanted to prove to myself, to the world,
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to my family that I could build something on my own.
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Most of the great advice I ever got was from great parents,
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not from great businessmen.
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He taught me there's a difference between winning and truly winning.
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You know, there's a lot of people who win in the outcome, but because they don't understand that living with integrity's a different kind of winning,
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they never understood how they actually lost.
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I only lasted in college for a year and a half.
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I started my business my freshman year.
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I did that for three and a half years,
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and I had all these ideas about social media,
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and no one was listening to me.
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Music artists were at their biggest
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when there was a feeling of self discovery.
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For these kids, it was social media.
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By starting my own record label management company,
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I signed a kid off MySpace named Asher Roth,
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and then four months after finding Asher,
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I went on YouTube and saw, by mistake,
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a kid singing who had 60,000 views, in his church in Canada,
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and I was so blown away by what I saw,
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I knew I can make this kid one of the biggest artists in the world, I just knew instantly,
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and that was Justin Beiber, a 12 year old, singing in a church,
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and I called every school district in that part of Ontario until his mom called to get rid of me,
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and I convinced her
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to get on the first plane that she and he had ever been on.
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I had saved money for about 13 to 14 months before I knew I was going broke,
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and this was probably month 11.
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I ordered a pizza, and I had to get out $11 in change from a bucket of change I kept dropping every time I came into my house
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because I had no money.
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I had Justin and his mother.
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I was paying their food bill, their electric bill.
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I was paying everything,
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and I was trying to build this company,
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and everyone in Atlanta thought I was winning,
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thought I was successful, but I knew the truth,
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and my dad just called me to say, hey, what's up?
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”What's going on?“
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And one thing led to another, and I just broke down,
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hysterically crying on the phone.
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”Dad, I'm gonna be a failure.“
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I'm a joke and no one knows,
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and everyone's about to find out.
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And my dad said, "You came this far. See it through."
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Kinda wiped at my tears, said okay,
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and the next day, Asher Roth came to my house,
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played me a song called, I Love College,
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and I instantly knew what to do.
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Within a month, I was able to get us a publishing deal for a million dollars.
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The commission saved my company.
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That was the first time I really understood
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that tomorrow comes, that the line,
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the homes of success and failure
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are next door to each other,
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that if I would've given up in that moment,
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I would've never known that success
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was waiting for me next door,
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and to me, that is success, it's who's gonna keep swinging.
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We define, oh, you're successful because you're rich.
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You know, we decide our eligible bachelors based on net worth.
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We should be looking at success as a very different thing.
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Are we happy?
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Do we have quality of life?
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Are we surrounded by loved ones?
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Are we able to take time to actually enjoy the victories?
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Do we even know what the victories are?
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Then yes, I know what the haters say.
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”Easy for you to say this.
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You've already had success, you have wealth.“
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You know, you're not dealing with what I'm dealing with,
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but I have once.
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I was there, and now I can tell you
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that with all the monetary success I have,
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if it wasn't for my wife and my children,
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'cause I'd be so lost.
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Family and friends, that's your real value.
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Each birthday I have, I don't look around and say,
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”Gosh, wonder how much money I got."
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No, I look around and say,
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"Look at the people I've collected in my life.
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Look at the family I've collected."
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The rest is just house money.
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(inspirational music)
