Washington's third point — about the impermanence of material wealth — became one of the most quoted lines from any commencement speech in recent memory. The U-Haul image was devastatingly simple: no matter how rich you are, you can't rent a moving truck for the afterlife. He then added a punchline that brought the house down: 'The Egyptians tried it. They got robbed.' But the real message wasn't about rejecting wealth. It was about redefining it. Washington pivoted immediately to service: 'The most selfish thing you can do in this world is help someone else. Why is it selfish? Because the gratification, the goodness that comes to you, the good feeling that I get from helping others — nothing's better than that.' By calling generosity 'selfish,' Washington performed a rhetorical inversion that made altruism feel not like sacrifice but like the highest form of self-interest. This section closed with one of his most memorable lines: 'Don't just aspire to make a living — aspire to make a difference.' The simplicity of the formulation belied its depth: the shift from 'living' to 'difference' was the shift from accumulation to impact, from the U-Haul to the legacy.