Commencement Speaker Tells New York Law School Grads To 'Go Play In Traffic'

This was quite the graduation speech.

Go play in traffic. Now you’re saying, “What’s wrong with the guy? He wants me to go get hit by a car!” That’s not what I want you to do. What I want you to do is engage. … Go out, play in traffic. Something’s gonna happen eventually.

Joe Plumeri, vice chairman of the First Data Board of Directors, encouraging New York Law School’s class of 2015 to take risks if they want to succeed in the legal profession. (For what it’s worth, Plumeri dropped out of NYLS to take a job on Wall Street with a brokerage firm — one that he originally mistook for a law firm.)

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