Need some motivation? Watch Les Brown’s classic motivational speech. As a kid, he was held back in school, and labeled by education bureaucrats as “educable mentally retarded.” His future did not seem bright. But then a high school teacher gave him some pivotal advice: “Someone’s opinion of you does not have to become your reality.”
His journey from a difficult childhood to his own talk show wasn’t an easy path – but he explains why “it pays to be hungry.”