00:00 Think about that one problem that matters the most to you.
00:05 That one issue you really need to resolve
00:08 to make this world a better place.
00:11 Now open your eyes.
00:12 That right there, that right there
00:16 is the core of my speech today.
00:19 When I first came to the US,
00:21 my only objective was to become successful,
00:24 live the American dream.
00:26 So one day I could use that success
00:29 to go back to my home state and fix the drug problem.
00:33 When I was growing up,
00:35 I lost two of my best friends to drug abuse.
00:39 I did.
00:41 So that's a problem that I gotta fix, right?
00:44 But when I met every single one of you right here,
00:47 I learned about the problems that you all care about.
00:50 For example, whenever there's a kid in Oakland
00:54 who can't afford school, that's a problem.
00:58 Whenever climate change wipes out a species,
01:02 that's a problem.
01:02 Whenever a Muslim woman gets bullied because of her hijab
01:08 or a Jewish man because of his yarmulke
01:12 or a Sikh man because of his turban,
01:15 that is a problem.
01:17 So why am I talking about this?
01:20 Why?
01:21 All of us, we all care about prosperity for everyone
01:26 to go beyond ourselves to make this world a better place.
01:30 We want to unify this world.
01:32 That is who we are.
01:33 Many people are probably wondering, that's fine,
01:36 but that's also nonsense.
01:39 That's so impractical because unifying the world
01:41 has never been done before.
01:42 What are you talking about?
01:44 There is no place in this world, some will say,
01:47 where people have been unified like that.
01:49 What if I said that there was?
01:51 What if I said that there was a place like that
01:54 where people are one?
01:56 There's a village in India, I'm not kidding,
01:58 called Shani Singapore, and in that village,
02:01 not a single house has a door.
02:05 And that's because the villagers firmly believe
02:07 that there is no need for borders or barriers
02:10 or discrimination.
02:12 They're all one.
02:14 And that is why in that village,
02:16 there has never been a theft or a robbery
02:18 or a single incident of violence.
02:20 So Climate 2017, I ask all of you,
02:25 what if all of us can use our education
02:28 to create a world just like that village?
02:31 They say that dreams are not the ones
02:35 that you have when you go to bed.
02:38 Hell no, dreams are the ones that don't let you go to bed,
02:42 like the one that Martin Luther King had.
02:45 That was a dream.
02:46 That was a dream.
02:48 The same way I know that everybody over here,
02:53 we also have a dream.
02:56 Our dream is to create a world where we are all one.
03:00 I'm not gonna say let's go out there
03:02 and earn the most profit.
03:03 I'm gonna say let's go out there
03:06 and earn prosperity for everyone.
03:08 I am not gonna say let's go out there
03:11 and just earn the six figures.
03:13 I'm gonna say let's take away
03:14 six of the world's biggest problems.
03:17 I'm not gonna say let's just enter the Forbes 40 under 40.
03:22 I'm gonna say let's unify this world with 42.
03:26 That is our identity.
03:28 That is who we are.
03:29 In the beginning of my speech today,
03:32 every single person over here,
03:34 from right there to right there,
03:36 you all thought about that one problem
03:38 that mattered the most to you, right?
03:40 Now is the time to go out there
03:44 and fix all of these problems, every single one of them.
03:48 And so here's my last sentence, my last sentence.
03:52 Our legacy will be we all not only did good business,
03:57 no, no, no, we all engaged
04:02 in the business of doing good.
04:06 (audience cheering)
04:09 (audience applauding)
04:12 (audience cheering)
04:16 (gentle music)
04:18 (upbeat music)
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