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A speaker argues success is a choice, not circumstance. Oprah overcame sexual assault at 13 and early motherhood in the segregated South to build her empire. Tony Robbins said it plainly: life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.

A speaker argues success is a choice, not circumstance. Oprah overcame sexual assault at 13 and early motherhood in the segregated South to build her empire. Tony Robbins said it plainly: life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.
You decide if you're going to be successful. Success is simply a choice. Look at Oprah Winfrey, right? She was sexually assaulted as a 13 year old, had a stillborn baby, came from a mom that was like 13 or 14 when she had her grew up in the south, you know, 60s racism, and now she's a billionaire. You know, most people could say, like, how did that person become Oprah Winfrey? Well, she didn't let her circumstances cause her not to be successful. Like Tony Robbins says, life doesn't happen to you. Life happens for you. So she took what happened to her and made it into like, I'm going to do something with it. So when I say success is simply a choice, that's what I simply mean. It is a choice. Nobody decides for it. You have to decide yourself.