6 Rules Of Success From Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Rule number two is: Break the rules.
We have so many rules in life about everything. I say break the rules. Not the law, but break the rules.
My wife has a T-shirt that says, โWell-behaved women rarely make history.โ Well, you know, I donโt want to burst her bubble, but the same is true with men.
It is impossible to be a maverick or a true original if youโre too well behaved and donโt want to break the rules. You have to think outside the box. Thatโs what I believe. After all, what is the point of being on this earth if all you want to do is be liked by everyone and avoid trouble?
The only way that I ever got anyplace was by breaking some of the rules.
After all, I remember that after I was finished with my bodybuilding career I wanted to get into acting and I wanted to be a star in films. You can imagine what the agents said when I went to meet all those agents. Everyone had the same line, that it canโt be done, the rules are different here.
They said, โLook at your body. You have this huge monstrous body, overly developed. That doesnโt fit into the movies. You donโt understand. This was 20 years ago, the Hercules movies. Now the little guys are in, Dustin Hoffman, Woody Allen, Jack Nicholson.โ Before he gained weight, of course, that is.
But anyway, those are the guys that were in. And the agents also complained about my accent. They said, โNo one ever became a star with an accent like that, especially not with a German accent. And yes, I can imagine with your name, Arnold Schwartzenschnitzel, or whatever the name, is, on a billboard. Yeah, thatโs going to draw a lot of tickets and sell a lot of tickets. Yeah, right.โ
So this is the kind of negative attitude they had. But I didnโt listen to those rules, even though they were very nice and they said, โLook, we can get you some bit parts. We can get you to be playing a wrestler or a bouncer. Oh, maybe with your German accent we can get you to be a Nazi officer in Hoganโs Heroes or something like that.โ
But I didnโt listen to all this. Those were their rules, not my rules. I was convinced I could do it if I worked as hard as I did in bodybuilding, five hours a day. And I started getting to work, I started taking acting classes. I took English classes, took speech classes, dialogue classes. Accent removal classes I even took.
I remember running around saying, โA fine wine grows on the vine.โ You see, because Germans have difficulties with the F and the W and V, so, โA fine wine grows on the vine.โ I know what some of you are now saying, is I hope that Arnold got his money back.
But let me tell you something, I had a good time doing those things and it really helped me. And finally I broke through. I broke through and I started getting the first parts in TV; Streets of San Francisco, Lucille Ball hired me, I made Pumping Iron, Stay Hungry.
And then I got the big break in Conan the Barbarian.
And there the director said, โIf we wouldnโt have Schwarzenegger, we would have to build one.โ
Now, think about that. And then, when I did Terminator, โIโll be back,โ became one of the most famous lines in movie history, all because of my crazy accent.
Now, think about it. The things that the agents said would be totally a detriment and would make it impossible for me to get a job, all of a sudden became an asset for me, all of those things, my accent, my body and everything.
So it just shows to you, never listen to that you canโt do something. And, โYou have to work your way up, of course, run for something else first.โ I mean, it was the same when I ran for governor, the same lines, that you have to work your way up, it canโt be done. And then, of course, I ran for governor and the rest, of course, is history.
They said you have to start with a small job as mayor and then as assemblyman and then as lieutenant governor and then as governor. And they said thatโs the way it works in a political career.
I said, โIโm not interested in a political career. I want to be a public servant. I want to fix Californiaโs problems and bring people together and bring the parties together.
So, like I said, I decided to run, I didnโt pay attention to the rules. And I made it and the rest is history. Which, of course, brings me to Rule number three: Donโt be afraid to fail.
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Anything Iโve ever attempted, I was always willing to fail. In the movie business, I remember, that you pick scripts. Many times you think this is a wining script, but then, of course, you find out later on, when you do the movie, that it didnโt work and the movie goes in the toilet.
Now, we have seen my movies; I mean, Red Sonja, Hercules in New York, Last Action Hero. Those movies went in the toilet. But thatโs OK, because at the same time I made movies like Terminator and Conan and True Lies and Predator and Twins that went through the roof.
So you canโt always win, but donโt afraid of making decisions. You canโt be paralyzed by fear of failure or you will never push yourself.
You keep pushing because you believe in yourself and in your vision and you know that it is the right thing to do, and success will come. So donโt be afraid to fail, which brings me to rule 4 which is:
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How many times have you heard that you canโt do this and you canโt do that and itโs never been done before? Just imagine if Bill Gates had quit when people said it canโt be done.
I hear this all the time. As a matter of fact, I love it when someone says that no one has ever done this before, because then when I do it that means that Iโm the first one that has done it. So pay no attention to the people that say it canโt be done.
I remember my mother-in-law, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, when she started Special Olympics in 1968 people said that it would not work. The experts, the doctors that specialized in mental disabilities and mental retardation said, โIt canโt be done. You canโt bring people out of their institutions. You canโt make them participate in sports, in jumping and swimming and in running. They will hurt themselves, they will hurt each other, they will drown in the pool.โ
Well, let me tell you something. Now, 40 years later, Special Olympics is one of the greatest organizations, in 164 countries, dedicated to people with mental disabilities and that are intellectually challenged.
And she did not take no for an answer. And the same is when you look at Barack Obama. I mean, imagine, if he would have listened. If he would have listened to the naysayers he would have never run for president. People said it couldnโt be done, that he couldnโt get elected, that he couldnโt beat Hillary Clinton, that he would never win the general election.
But he followed his own heart, he didnโt listen to the โYou canโt,โ and he changed the course of American history.
So over and over you see that. If I would have listened to the naysayers I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling. I would never have come to America. I would have never met my wonderful wife Maria Shriver, I would have never had the wonderful four kids, I would have never done Terminator, and I wouldnโt be standing here in front of you today as governor of the greatest state of the greatest country in the world.
So I never listen that, โYou canโt.โ I always listen to myself and say, โYes, you can.โ
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