Warren's third and final piece of advice — be willing to fight — drew on her most public and combative experiences. She described being told not to even try creating the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, being told to lower her sights, facing opposition from banks that spent more than a million dollars a day fighting against financial reforms for over a year. The David-and-Goliath framing was deliberate: 'What did we have on our side? We didn't have any money. But we scrambled and we scratched and we fought back.' The CFPB became law and returned more than $11 billion to cheated consumers in its first five years. The point was that fights worth fighting are always uphill, and the opposition will always seem overwhelming. Warren connected this back to her second point about self-knowledge: knowing who you are gives you the conviction to keep fighting when the resistance is fierce. For graduates of Suffolk University — a school founded in 1906 on the belief that education should be available to everyone, not just the wealthy — the message of fighting for what you believe in was particularly resonant.