David Rubenstein talks philanthropy, work ethic, and the secret to success

You , you keep saying it and , um I believe it , I mean , look , the people who are brilliant or people got eight hundreds on their sats and perfect scores and their achievement tests and all the things I couldn't do or were valedictorians . They are the brilliant people . I'm not that I got lucky in a couple of things and , and one of the things I , I would say is I probably am smarter than I was when I took the sats in many ways because I continued to read and learn .

David Rubenstein talks philanthropy, work ethic, and the secret to success

I saw a quote from you and you , you've mentioned a few times here . You say you're not brilliant . You , I've heard you say you're not very handsome .

David Rubenstein talks philanthropy, work ethic, and the secret to success

I heard you say you're not that smart . I think most people would think you're brilliant even though you may not uh see yourself that way and I think it's one of the reasons why you are a great leader actually . And I think it's one of the reasons why people respect you so much .

David Rubenstein talks philanthropy, work ethic, and the secret to success

Um It just , people don't read they , and so I'm always trying to absorb and learn more information and I , I think that's a part of the growing process . But , um , you know , I believe me , I'm not brilliant and I'm not , uh you know , as talented as I wish I were . But , you know , you take what you get , you can get out of life .

David Rubenstein talks philanthropy, work ethic, and the secret to success

I mean , I've heard it over , I mean , I've read about it , I've heard you speak at milking conference and some other conferences too and even in this 90 minutes we're gonna , uh spend together today . You , you keep saying it and , um I believe it , I mean , look , the people who are brilliant or people got eight hundreds on their sats and perfect scores and their achievement tests and all the things I couldn't do or were valedictorians . They are the brilliant people .