Steve Harvey is a successful comedian and businessman despite the ups and downs of his career, and he recently disclosed his advice for success on his Twitter account. In a conversation with Oprah Winfrey, he discussed his views on how people can affect one's own success both positively and negatively.
The Wagon and the Rope
On July 4th, Harvey tweeted a video from an appearance he made on Oprah's Life Class in 2014. Life Class was a self-help show hosted by Winfrey, in which each episode revolved a specific topic or lesson meant to help viewers live their best lives.
Harvey tweeted with the video, "You gotta make a list of everyone in your life and what they provide for you. This is a hard list to make but you've got to come to the conclusion of who is a benefit in your life and who is a detraction in your life."
"When you are a person who is success-minded, you have a wagon that you are pulling up-hill," Harvey said in the video. "Attached to this wagon is this very thick rope. You are shirtless. You have a rope on your back and you are pulling this wagon and you're pulling this wagon up-hill at all times. You are totally responsible for your wagon...in order for the wagon to go up the hill, you have to have people..."
He continued, "What you have to be careful of is, as you pull this rope up the hill, you have to make sure that everyone who is on the wagon is doing something to get the wagon up the hill...There are people who will get on your wagon and have no value."
Success Did Not Come Easy For Harvey
Harvey is a comedian and entertainer. Most notably, he has been the host of Family Feud since 2010. Additionally, he has written a couple of books that are intended to help people with the same goal of finding success, such as Act Like a Success.
But it was a challenge to find success. While trying to make it as a comedian, Harvey was homeless for three years. He told People in 2016, "It was crushing. I realized, 'You're on your own. You have nothing or no one.' All I knew was that I could make people laugh."
Harvey's current net worth is roughly $180 million.
