Chris Gardner's Journey to Success: Overcoming Challenges and Pursuing Happiness, Exams of Graphic Design

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• I think I should make a list. - What do mean?
• For your birthday gifts? - Yeah.

You know you're only getting a couple of things, right?

Yeah, I know. Just to look at and study so I can choose better.

Okay, well, that's smart. Yeah, make a list.

Can you spell everything you're thinking of?

• I think so. - All right. That's good.
• How you doing in here, man? - Okay.

Can we go to the park today, after?

No, I gotta go to Oakland. Well, maybe, we'll see.

Give me a kiss.

I'll talk to you later.

Excuse me.

Oh, excuse me...

That seems like a time machine. It's a time machine. Take me with you.

This machine...

...this machine on my lap...

This guy, he has a time machine.

He travels in the past with this machine and...

• it is not a time machine.

It' a portable bone-density scanner.

A medical device I sell for a living.

Thank you for the opportunity to discuss it with you.

• I appreciate it. - We just don't need it, Chris.

It's unnecessary and expensive.

• Well, maybe next... - Thank you.

It gave a slightly denser picture than an x-ray for twice the money.

• Hey. - Hey, baby.
• What happened? - No, nothing.

Look, I can't get Christopher today.

Oh, no, you don't, Chris. I'm back on at 7.

I know. I have got to go to Oakland.

So I gotta get Christopher home, feed him, bathe him...

...get him in bed, and be back here by 7?

• Yes. - And we got the tax-bill notice today.
• What are you gonna do about that? - Look, this is what we gotta do.

You see that car? The one with the pretty yellow shoe on it?

That' mine.

There' no parking near hospitals.

That' what happens when you're always in a rush.

Make every side the same color.

Did you pay the taxes?

No, I'm gonna have to file an extension.

• You already filed an extension. - Yeah, well, I gotta file another one.

That's... It's $650. I'll have it in the next month.

That means interest, right?

• And a penalty? - Yeah, a little bit.

Look, why don't you let me do this? All right, just relax. Okay?

• Come here. Calm down. - I have to go back to work.

Let's get ready for bed. Hey, put your plate in the sink.

A few days ago I was presented with a report I'd asked for...

...a comprehensive audit, if you will, of our economic condition.

You won't like it. I didn't like it.

But we have to face the truth...

...and then go to work to turn things around.

And make no mistake about it, we can turn them around.

The federal budget is out of control.

And we face runaway deficits of almost $80 billion...

...for this budget year that ends September 30th.

That deficit is larger than the entire federal budget in 1957.

And so is the almost $80 billion...

...we will pay in interest this year on the national debt.

Twenty years ago, in 1960...

...our federal government payroll was less than $ 13 billion.

Today it is 75 billion.

During these 20 years, our population has only increased by 23. percent...

• For what? - I wanna see about a job there.

Yeah? What job?

You know, when l...

When I was a kid, I could go through a math book in a week.

So I'm gonna go see about what job they got down there.

What job?

Stockbroker.

• Stockbroker? - Yeah.

Not an astronaut?

Don't talk to me like that, Linda.

I'm gonna go down and see about this, and I'm gonna do it during the day.

You should probably do your sales calls.

I don't need you to tell me about my sales calls, Linda.

I got three of them before the damn office is even open.

Do you remember that rent is due next week?

Probably not.

We're already two months behind.

Next week we'll owe three months.

I've been pulling double shifts for four months now, Chris.

Just sell what's in your contract. Get us out of that business.

Linda, that is what I am trying to do.

This is what I'm trying to do for my family...

...for you and for Christopher.

What's the matter with you?

Linda.

Linda.

I mean, I'm... You know, I'm just this office.

As you can see, we got a hell of lot of applications here, so...

Normally I have a resume sheet, but I can't seem to find it anywhere.

• We... - Thank you very much.

I need to go.

I'll bring this back.

• Thank you. - Okay.

Trusting a hippie girl with my scanner. Why did I do that?

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Like I said, this part of my life is called "Being Stupid."

Hey! Hey! Hey! Don't move! Don't move! Stay...!

Stop! Stop!

Don't move! Stop this...! Stop the train!

Stop! Stop!

The program took just 20 people every six months.

One got the job.

There were three blank lines after "high school" to list more education.

I didn't need that many lines.

Try and sleep. It's late.

It' a puzzle measuring just 3 inches by 3 inches on each side...

...made up of multiple colors that you twist and turn...

...and try to get to a solid color on each side.

This little cube is the gift sensation of 1981.

Don't expect to solve it easily.

Although we did encounter one math professor at USF...

...who took just 30 minutes on his.

But it's not spelled right.

• Is "fuck" spelled right? - Yeah, that's spelled right.

But that's not part of the motto, so you're not supposed to learn that.

That's an adult word to show anger and other things.

• But just don't use that one, okay? - Okay.

What's that say on the back of your bag?

My nickname.

We pick nicknames.

• Oh, yeah? What's it say? - "Hot Rod."
• Did you have a nickname? - Yep.
• What? - "Ten-Gallon Head."
• What's that? - I grew up in Louisiana, near Texas.

Everybody wears cowboy hats. And a ten-gallors a big hat.

I was smart back then, so they called me Ten-Gallon Head.

• Hoss wears that hat. - Hoss?

Hoss Can'twright on Bonanza.

• How do you know Bonanza? - We watch it at Mrs. Chu's.
• You watch Bonanza at daycare? - Yeah.

When? When do you watch it?

• After snack? After your nap? - After Love Boat.

I made my list for my birthday.

• Yeah, what'd you put on there? - A basketball or an ant farm.
• He says he's been watching TV. - Oh, little TV for history.
• Love Boat? - For history. Navy.

That's not the Navy.

I mean, he could watch television at home.

I thought I'd catch you on the way in. I'd love the opportunity to discuss...

...what may seem like weaknesses on my application.

We'll start with this, and we'll call you if we wanna sit down.

• Yes, sir. You have a great day. - You too.

Hey, yeah, how you doing?

This is Chris Gardner calling for Dr. Delsey.

Yeah, I'm running a little late for a sales call.

I was wondering if... Yeah, Osteo National.

Right. We can still...? Half an hour?

Yes. Beautiful. Beautiful. Thank you, thank you.

Hey! Hey!

Hey!

This part of my life...

• Wait! ...this part here...

...it' called "Running."

Hey! Hey!

Wait!

Hey! Wait!

That was my stolen machine.

Unless she was with a guy who sold them too.

Which was unlikely...

...because I was the only one selling them in the Bay Area.

I spent our entire life savings on these things.

It was such a revolutionary machine.

• Can you feel it, baby? - Oh, yeah.

You got me doing all the work.

What I didn't know is that doctors and hospitals...