Do You Actually Want It? — Transcript

When I was broke, I couldn't sleep. I don't know how there's broke people out here sleeping just fine at night. Going, oh, you know, inflation's 20%, gas prices are six times. Everything on the news is a lie. I never stand a chance of ever getting rich. Where's my pillow?

Like, what the fuck is wrong with you people? I go to bed at night as a teenager and think, I'd looked it up on the internet. It was a Honda Civic Type R. I wanted one. It was like £38,000. I had no money.

I had less than £50 in my bank account. Couldn't afford it. Then I looked up how much a Ferrari cost, £210,000. And I said, Tristan, my brother, I was like, there are people with £210,000 for a car.

And he was like, yes, so? I'm like, no, no, not so. How? If I worked my job for six years and saved every penny.

If I walked to work and didn't eat, I couldn't buy this car. How are people doing this?

I couldn't sleep at night when I was broke. I knew that everything was a lie. I knew the Matrix was lying to me. I knew I had to find a way out. I was sitting there going, I refuse to live my human years and be some second-class citizen peasant when there's people out here who get to do whatever the fuck they want.

I couldn't tolerate it, and I was so uncomfortable that it gave me the motivation I needed to escape.

But the people who go, oh yeah, nice Ferrari, yeah, back to the TV, dummies, losers.

And the thing about the world is, we need losers. I'm not mad at losers.

If that's the reality you've chosen to live, you get one spin in this version of life, and you decided you want to be a loser, that's fantastic.

Because I like, I mean, my cars need cleaning, you know, a hotel room needs cleaning. I'll have a party with all these beautiful women that's a bit of a mess. Please, go pick it up. Somebody needs to do that shit. I ain't going to fucking do it.

If I had to walk into a hotel room and clean them after some other man's party, I guarantee you, I'd do whatever it fucking took to become rich so I didn't have to do that shit anymore. But you want to do that for 20 years?

Thanks, friend.

I don't think motivation is a real thing. I don't believe in motivation as a concept. I think discipline is real, and I also think discontentment is real, and I don't think it's possible for anybody to stay in a scenario where they're truly uncomfortable.

If you fall asleep on your arm and your arm really starts to hurt, even in the deepest sleep, you're going to wake up and move your arm. If you sit there and your life has been in a rut for seven years, you are semi-comfortable in that rut.

Sure, there's days you're pissed off, sure you're semi-annoyed by it, but there's also days where you just play video games, eat pizza, and you're kind of cool with it, and it's no big deal. If you were truly unhappy and uncomfortable and discontent with your scenario, you wouldn't be in it.

So I think I don't believe there's anybody who's truly, when I was broke, I couldn't sleep.

I'm not saying that, please understand me. When I was broke, I couldn't sleep. I'd be trying to go to bed thinking, how the fuck these people have Ferraris? I want a fucking Ferrari.

I couldn't sleep.

Hey man, you know, I'm just unlucky. You are not unlucky, you are a lazy fucking loser. That's, you are not unlucky. You're breathing, you're lucky. The unlucky ones are gone. You're alive and you are a lazy loser.

So a loser is anybody who does not have everything they want at the drop of a hat.

That's who I call a loser, because I have absolutely everything I could ever possibly desire, and if I wanted something that I couldn't have, I guarantee you, we could speak again in a few months and I fucking had it. I guarantee you.

Because if I want something and I can't have it, I can't sleep.

Anger is the most powerful force on planet Earth. Directed anger, focused anger.

I'm going to be misunderstood because I always am. I'm not saying you start smashing your head against the wall like an idiot. I'm saying that very much like a focused concentration of water through a dam can power a city.

That is how your anger should work. You should focus it in the exact direction it needs to go to solve the problem. If you're poor, get angry. If your woman left, get angry. Go get angry at her for leaving. Get angry at yourself for being left. Don't get angry at the world you're poor, get angry at yourself because you can't afford all the things you want. Get to the point where you can't sit still and watch Netflix and eat ice cream because you are too anxious about the fact that you don't have $100 million.

You might start doing some work.

You need to get angry about your situation, that in this world there's a whole bunch of people doing amazing shit that you are not doing, and that needs to piss you off. Because if it pisses you off, you become motivated all of a sudden.

I was the only one who was pissed off when that Aston Martin was next to me and I had my sales job. I was the only one who was pissed off when I saw that Ferrari drive past. Other people were not annoyed by it, and they're not annoyed by it, they're not driven to beat him. You understand? They're not driven to be where that person was.

Anger is a fantastic force. Like I said, the world tells you not to be arrogant, tells you not to be angry. It's two things it tells you to do. Don't be arrogant, don't have an ego, and you know, don't have anger. You're a fucking man, you're a full-grown man. It's perfectly fine for you to be pissed off.

It's perfectly fine for you to look around at your life and get pissed off and go, you know what? I want a fucking nicer house, I want a faster car. There's nothing wrong if you take that anger and you direct it in the correct direction.

You're 22 at the height of your capabilities, the height of your energy. You heal like Wolverine. It is Friday. Are you making money? What are you doing?

Oh, there's this band, I really want to see this band. I guess you just deserve to lose, friend.

When I hear people say, oh, it's hard, or I don't have time, etcetera, etcetera, all you're doing is telling me you're a loser.

Every single winner feels the same as you do. The difference is, they do not quit. They do not give up. They do not make excuses. They stay on the highway.

It's amazing what you can achieve if you never give up. My saying, unmatched perspicacity and sheer indomitability. That point is important. Sheer indefatigability, the inability to become fatigued. If you never quit, if you never give up, if you never give in, you're going to get exactly what you wanted. All you had to do is not be a fucking coward, and you still failed.

I don't want to hear any excuses. I don't care about excuses. God doesn't care about excuses, and the winners who went through the exact same things you're going through, who didn't quit, don't care about excuses.

There are winners and losers in the world. You are either a winner who dedicates himself, never gives up, continues to learn, does everything he knows he needs to do regardless of how he feels, or you're a loser who makes excuses and you stay invisible for the rest of human time. Make a choice.

And I see people at a bus stop. I'm at the traffic light and I'm like, it's freezing and it's raining and it's night time.

And you can't afford an Uber. If that, if that won't motivate you, I don't know what will.

Because the worst thing about the bus isn't the bus, it's the time you wait for the bus. Time is money. You're going to sit down there for 45 minutes in the freezing cold and waste your time to save a couple dollars on an Uber.

And you don't feel panic to get rich? And you're just fine with that? And you're going to come home, took the bus today, bro.

Have you given up yet? You were all excited and motivated and you promised you're going to be dedicated and do all these amazing things.

But New Year's is over now and all the hype is over, and you've told everyone your resolutions and no one cares anymore. You're still kind of doing them. You're still going to the gym because you said you would, but are you really training?

Or are you slowly fizzling out? By like the 15th, 16th, you would have quit by then, wouldn't you? Because you were excited, but you're not excited anymore. And you can only do things that are hard when you're excited about them, which sucks, which is why your life sucks.

You need to do things that are hard because they must be done. That is the difference between dedication and motivation.

So I ask you, be honest, have you lost some of your gumption? Have you lost some of your excitement towards those goals, towards those dreams you were trying to achieve? If you've lost 1% motivation towards the things you promised you would achieve in 2026, then you are guaranteed to quit this thing.

That's the best thing about being dedicated. You don't need motivation. As your moods change, as the weather changes up and down, nothing changes because things must be done and they get done. So ask yourself if you are motivated or dedicated.

If you're motivated, you don't stand a chance. If you're dedicated, you're going to get it done, irrespective of how terrible you feel. I'm never motivated, but I am dedicated. I hate training, but I don't miss it.

There are no shortcuts, there's no magic formula.

You know, I got asked this the most when I was fighting. I'd beat somebody up in sparring and they'd say to me, man, why do you keep beating me? Cause I work harder than you and I'm better than you. Yeah, but what, what should I do different? There's nothing I can say to you that's going to stop me beating you.

If I could just say a few words and you listened to them and then I couldn't beat you up anymore, then training would be pointless, working would be pointless. The world doesn't work that way. I beat you up because I am better than you, and I am better than you because I worked harder than you.

There's no shortcuts in life. I don't know why everyone's obsessed with shortcuts. It's this new generation of fucking losers. Success comes from working absolutely every single day.

It's exactly the same with anything in life. Doesn't matter if you want to be strong in the gym, doesn't matter if you want to be an amazing fighter, good at guitar, or if you want to be successful inside of the real world.

You are only going to be successful if you turn up and you work every single day. All I do is work every single day. Why do you think you're better than me? Do you think you're more qualified than me? If I have to work every single day, Andrew Tate has to work every single day to be successful, but me, Joe Schmo, Mr. Nobody, I don't have to work every single day.

Turn up, follow the lessons, listen to your professors, do the AMAs. If you have a question, ask the community, and I guarantee you success. The only people who don't make money inside the real world are people who quit.

I can't help quitters. Nobody can help a quitter. God can't help a quitter. God could give you a plan and said you can have everything you've ever desired if you follow this plan. If you quit halfway through the plan, you're not going to have what you desired.

God himself cannot turn a quitter into a somebody, and I am certainly not as powerful as God. So nobody could do it if you are a quitter. If you don't work and you quit, you are going to fail.

If you do exactly what we tell you to do, and you work hard, and you actually try, you're going to be successful. So the question is, do you want it or not?

There's no shortcuts. If you want to beat me in sparring, you're going to have to come and train harder than I train, and you have to dedicate yourself for as long as I have. And if you want to be rich, you're going to have to do exactly as we tell you to do.

Don't ask any more stupid questions. I don't want to hear it. It's asinine. It hurts my brain. Losers lose because they quit.

If you are indomitable and you never quit, I will guarantee you success. The choice is yours.

Last year you had such fantastical plans, you had such huge ambition, didn't you? And then you quit. You achieved absolutely none of the things you said you were going to achieve at this time last year, because along with everybody else, you gave up.

2025 was the year of the quitter. Everyone's so demoralized. There's no one left who is sitting there and saying, no, I refuse to quit.

You can't quit, you can't give up. Let everyone else quit. Let everyone else drop off. You dominate the universe. That is what life is about. It's about the feeling inside of your heart, the fire inside of your eyes. Winners don't accept quitting. Quitting is gay. Winners fight to the end. You wasted the last year. You know it, I know it. Do not waste the next year.

If you don't feel the urgency, you're in trouble. It's the great lock-in of 2026.

Listen to my words, store this tweet. Asset prices are going to go through the roof. The dollar will continue to lose value. It's going to be harder and harder for you to own anything of significance. AI is going to take more and more jobs. There's going to be less and less opportunities.

It is the great lock-in of 2026. If you don't make it this year, you ain't going to make it. That's how it feels to me.

And I know more than you. You need to start waking up and saying, uh-oh, it is now or absolutely never. The great lock-in, the work must begin. You must be motivated and dedicated.

You must believe in yourself. You have to try 100% this year because soon the gates to prosperity are going to close forever. They will close forever and your chance will be gone. Your entire bloodline will remain poor forever because of you.

The great lock-in, 2026, it's now or never.

You didn't try at all. I did it with all of the pain I went through and all the problems I had, while also fighting and becoming a kickboxing world champion, I still managed to do it.

You started at a higher bracket than me. You started from a middle income home. Your dad was a, you had food. I didn't have food and I was a world champion. How did you fail so massively?

And I look at them and just think of them as, you're an idiot. And if I feel that, imagine how the elites look at this.

Imagine you're born into a lineage, a bloodline that have been in charge of the banks forever. Imagine how you view people. You think you give a shit whether they live or die?

I don't think many people genuinely do their best in the world anymore. When I say do your best, people sit and go, oh yeah, okay.

No, when's the last time you actually did your best? Like, I don't train to run marathons, but I know if I gave my best, I could run a marathon right now, first try. If I gave my best, life depending on it. When's the last time people have rarely or genuinely given their best to anything?

There are people going through the world and going through life today that don't give their best or 100% effort to anything ever. Ever. They can't remember the last time they tried.

Every single day you delay. Every single day it takes you to reach the end goal, it becomes harder, nigh on impossible on a long enough time frame.

You're attempting to climb a mountain. Every single day the mountain grows. It gets higher, it gets taller. Rock emerges from the earth, from the tectonic plates. You do not have time to lack motivation. You do not have time to struggle with dedication. Your time is up. You must run to the top of the mountain instantly. The less time it takes you to get there, the less distance you have to climb.

You knew a year from now your life would be completely different. It would be extremely easy for you to dedicate yourself and try every single day.

You had the guaranteed results waiting for you at the end. The life you were waiting to live, 2026 to be completely different to 2025.

You could join the Heroes year and do the work every single day. You just have to know the results are coming. So the trick to life is to self-hypnotize. The trick to life is to look in the mirror and say, yes, in a year from now, I'm going to have everything I've ever dreamed of. I'm going to be rich, I'm going to be well known, I'm going to have everything I've ever aspired to have in 365 days from now if I do all of the work.

You can decide that the results are waiting for you. You can decide that you have 100% chance of success. Once that's done, you don't have to struggle with motivation. You don't have to struggle with being dedicated. You're not going to worry about how hard the work is because you know it's going to pay off in the end.

I believe in you. I know nobody else believes in you. Nobody else tells you they believe in you. I believe in you.

I don't even know you and I believe in you. I believe you can achieve amazing things. I believe you can make a whole bunch of money. I believe you can be rich and famous and have a beautiful woman who adores you, and you can impregnate her 55 times.

I believe in you. I believe in you. Your ex is going to be furious. She's going to be stalking you, mad that she lost you because you're a winner.

I Top G believe you are a winner. The sun is shining, you're a winner, I'm a fucking winner. I got money. You're about to make a whole bunch of money. Me, the money genie, I'm blessing you.

Here, take the blessings, catch them. Put them in your pocket. Put them in your pocket. Here's the money, put it in your pocket. You can do it, you got to believe in yourself.

You just got to try things, you know? And if you lose, who cares? And if you win, that's great.

I've lost loads of times. Nobody cares, cause I drive a Bugatti and a Pagani and a Corvette. I'm a winner. Golden cappuccino. You can be like me, you can win too.

You just got to keep doubling down, keep trying, you know? Get up, dust yourself off and try again. That's what you got to do.

You cannot fail if you try your best.

So if you don't have the car you want, the woman you want, the relationship you want, the friends you want, the house you want, you haven't been trying your best, because I guarantee you the second you do, you'll have all of it. Every single one.

If you're sitting at home and you're a young man in your 20s watching this, one day you're going to blink and you're going to be 40 like I am. What are you going to do with the next two decades? You're scared of starting a business or going up to a girl or getting in the ring.

You're scared of making a name for yourself. You're scared of the world knowing who you are. You're scared of getting up there and taking a risk in case people fucking laugh at you. You're going to die soon. One day you're going to be old wishing you did it when you're young. What are you waiting for?

If you continue to show up time and time again, in the end, you can fucking win. If you show up when no one else will show up, and when the win is due to be given out, it turns out there's only one guy.

You stop making excuses, you stop waiting and praying for some kind of better future, and you wake up every day and say, all of the good in my life is my fault, and all of the bad in my life is my fault, and I'm the only one who can fix this.

It's never going to get better by itself. It's never going to be fixed by anyone else. It's never going to be easy. I have to win by force. I must force myself and my mind to brutally perform. There is a degree of comfort that comes when you understand that the power is within your own hands.

You're a different man when you have no safety net. You're a different man when you have to pull it off. Not, I need to. No, I literally have to pull this off. I have to roll the dice. Most men don't understand what it feels like to roll a dice and you have to get a six.

So they go, what do you mean you have to? No, I have to get a six. You're not understanding me. So that, that's extremely character building.

It's supposed to be hard. Life is supposed to be hard. You're supposed to think this is terrible. You're supposed to suffer and smile through the pain regardless.

100 people start the path, 99 fall off because it is difficult, and the one person who makes it to the end gets the gold. If all 100 made it to the end and the gold was divided by 100, it wouldn't even be worth anything.

Stand up. Everyone is making fun of you, and the only possible revenge is success.

It should be all you think about. It should be all you do. It doesn't matter who the president is. Nobody's coming. No one's going to save you. You need to do it yourself. Just you, by yourself. Get up and do it.

Otherwise, they're going to be right.

You know that ex who really upset you, who broke your heart, she has a new man now and she seems happy. She wouldn't be happy if you got a lot richer. If you got a bunch richer after you broke up, and in better shape, and famous. If she saw you and goes, wow, he didn't have a six-pack and arms like that when I was with him. He didn't drive a car like that when I was with him. Look at him now. Ah, I really wish I didn't leave him and go with this other guy. I wish I stayed with him. Before you know it, she'd hate her current husband and want you back. Success is the best revenge.

It's the best revenge on your school teachers who didn't believe in you. It's the best revenge on your boss who used to boss you around. It's the best revenge on all those women who don't fucking reply to you anymore. It's the revenge on everyone. It's the cure-all, the silver bullet. The only thing you have to focus on is winning. If you win, you win everything.

You don't have to play all these little games. You don't have to try and get your ex back or upset her or be petty or send her stupid fucking messages.

You need to fucking get rich. Then all of the work is done. I automatically win in every scenario because of how successful I am. If I break up with a woman, I win. I win because she will never get another me.