Grant Cardone

Anyone that suggests to me to do less is either not a real friend or very confused!
– Grant Cardone

No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.
– Grant Cardone

Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives – such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems – are all the result of not taking enough action.
– Grant Cardone

I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.
– Grant Cardone

Do people know you because of your unbelievable work ethic? If you can’t answer YES to that, you’re not gonna get into that top 10 percent.
– Grant Cardone

You can’t reach your potential without haters.
– Grant Cardone

Learn to close… and you will never be without a job, and never be without money.
– Grant Cardone

Criticism precedes admiration and – like it or not – goes hand in hand with success. Keep pouring on the success, and sooner or later, the very same people who were putting you down will be admiring you for what you have done.
– Grant Cardone

If the kids wake you up in the morning you don’t have your shit together.
– Grant Cardone

Massive thoughts must be followed by massive actions. There is nothing ordinary about the 10X Rule. It is simply what it says it is: 10 times the thoughts and 10 times the actions of other people… You never do what others do. You must be willing to do what they won’t do – and even take actions that you might deem “unreasonable.”
– Grant Cardone

Your persistence on any given endeavor is determined by the clarity of your purpose.
– Grant Cardone

If you’re average, you’ll hate me.
– Grant Cardone

Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.
– Grant Cardone

Success must be approached from an ethical viewpoint. Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility!
– Grant Cardone

Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same.
– Grant Cardone

Money and power follow attention, so whoever can get the most attention is the person who takes the most action and sooner or later will get the most results.
– Grant Cardone

I contend that the middle class is the most suppressed, restricted, and confined socioeconomic demographic in the world. Those who desire to be a part of it are compelled to think and act in a certain way where “just enough” is the reward.
– Grant Cardone

If you have attention on your problems, your goals aren’t big enough.
– Grant Cardone

Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward. Truly successful people don’t even call it work; for them, it’s a passion. Why? Because they do enough to win!
– Grant Cardone

Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison.
– Grant Cardone

Approach every situation with an “in-it-to-win-it-whatever-it-takes” mind-set. Sound too aggressive? Sorry, but that is the outlook required to win nowadays.
– Grant Cardone

Fast is the new big. Perfection is the killer to production. Perfection is basically a symptom of procrastination.
– Grant Cardone

People want to be entrepreneurs. Everybody wants to be “the business man or woman.” Everybody wants to be the CEO or the vice-president. Look if you can’t sell your product, your ideas and your dreams, go work for somebody else because it is not going to happen. You got to sell. When Lehman’s collapsed 2 years ago, 28 months ago, the internal world, at least in the United States all became sales people. CEOs, vice presidents, god-like figures, bankers. If you can’t sell, you’re going to lose your job. If you can’t sell, your dreams won’t come true. So selling for me, to answer your question, it encompasses everything. It’s not one small thing. For me to get the woman I want, or the mate I want, I got to sell the right person. Most people don’t do that. Most people say, “Oh, I can’t get that, so I’ll just drop down a level.”
– Grant Cardone

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.
– Grant Cardone

Average is a failing formula.
– Grant Cardone

I have been called a lot of things due to my commitment to action – a workaholic, obsessive, greedy, never satisfied, driven, and even maniac… I have never had someone who is more successful than I am considering my excessive action to be a bad thing – because successful people know firsthand what it takes to achieve this kind of success.
– Grant Cardone

No one is going to come to your house and make your dreams come true.
– Grant Cardone

So before you say to yourself for the millionth time, “I would be happy if I just had …” or “I don’t want to be rich – just comfortable” or “I just want enough enough to be happy,” you must understand one vital point: Limiting the amount of success you desire is a violation of the 10X rule in and of itself. When people start limiting the amount of success they desire, I assure you they will limit what will be required of them in order to achieve success and will fail miserably at doing what it takes to keep it.
– Grant Cardone

Businesses fail first and foremost because their ideas weren’t sold quickly enough and in quantities great enough, and therefore they ran out of money.
– Grant Cardone

Fear and insecurity… The first thing I want you to know is this: it’s common. Everybody experienced it. Nobody is beyond it. It doesn’t make you bad or weak, ok? You don’t need medication for it, ok? It’s normal.
– Grant Cardone

Do what you are scared to do and watch your confidence grow.
– Grant Cardone

To maintain your enthusiasm, you have to make your goals substantial enough that they keep your attention. Average and realistic goals are almost always a letdown to the person setting them – who is then unable to fuel his or her goals with the actions necessary.
– Grant Cardone

Luck is just one of the byproducts of those who take the most action.
– Grant Cardone

It’s been said that FEAR stands for False Events Appearing Real, which aptly implies that most of what you’re afraid of doesn’t ever come to pass. Fear, for the most part, is provoked by emotions, not rational thinking. And in my humble estimation, emotions are wildly overrated – and the scapegoat many people use for their failure to act.
– Grant Cardone

If you aren’t where you want to be in life, you’ve got to work every minute and snatch up every opportunity.
– Grant Cardone

I need to treat money like it’s sacred. Truth is, people don’t like money. I know they don’t like money. You know how I know they don’t like money? Do you like money? No, I don’t think you do! Because as soon as you get some you get rid of it. You buy shit with it!
– Grant Cardone

Don’t just make money, make a difference.
– Grant Cardone

The weak compete. The strong dominate.
– Grant Cardone

You can’t get anywhere flying under the radar.
– Grant Cardone

If you’re overweight by 80 pounds, you’re gonna hate my guts for this or I’m gonna change your life, one of the two… if you’re overweight by 80 pounds, at the bottom of all that is not just a disease that might be responsible for your overweight, but the truth underneath the disease is this: You’re freakin’ lazy! Go walk, go run, go work out, get the weight off! Your life depends on it. America, quit being lazy! Quit being a fatso! Quit being a drug addict! Quit doing the things that aren’t good for you and start doing the things that are.
– Grant Cardone

Being poor is a choice. Being middle class is a choice. Being upper middle class is a choice. Being rich is a choice. You may not like to hear it. Don’t blame the messenger!
– Grant Cardone

Very successful people don’t seek comfort; they seek success and are willing to do what is most uncomfortable. But most of the world is seeking comfort and familiarity, which are traps that cause you to settle for the mediocre. If you want to get to the next level of your business, you’ve got to be comfortable being uncomfortable.
– Grant Cardone

If you are not scared, you aren’t doing anything big.
– Grant Cardone

Average doesn’t work in any area of life. Anything that you give only average amounts of attention to will start to subside and will eventually cease to exist. Companies, industries, artists, products, and individuals who continue into the future successfully are those who approach every activity with the outlook that average is just not good enough. You need to change your commitment and thinking to be far above any concepts of average.
– Grant Cardone

“Small” thinking has and always will be punished in one way or another.
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No job, no money. No money, no lifestyle. No lifestyle – depression.
– Grant Cardone

Learn how to sell your product and your service. The Ph.D. everyone needs right now is how to sell their product. It’s what business owners don’t want to do. I own three businesses. When I start a business, I don’t go out and get printers and telephones and furniture. I go get sales. The guy who opens a restaurant, the first thing he does is go get business cards. But you don’t need business cards, you need people in your restaurant. So that would be my first recommendation – get a Ph.D. in selling and get used to liking it. Be proud to sell your product. Don’t call yourself something other than a salesperson. Don’t do it. Because even a doctor needs to sell.
– Grant Cardone

Rich people invest money and poor people spend it.
– Grant Cardone

The most successful CEOs are reported to read an average of 60 books and attend more than six conferences per year – whereas the average American worker reads an average of less than one book and makes 319 times less income.
– Grant Cardone

You will never be admired without being criticized first.
– Grant Cardone

Massive success is the best revenge.
– Grant Cardone

Never make it your goal to compete. Instead, do everything you can to dominate your sector in order to avoid spending your time chasing someone else. Don’t let another company set the pace; make this your organization’s job. Stay ahead of the pack. Make it so that they want to chase you and try to be like you, not the other way around.
– Grant Cardone

One of the problems with success is that it demands continuous attention.
– Grant Cardone

A great manager will push a person to do more at the risk of coming up short, not target less. This idea of changing targets to make everyone feel good will lead to a further weakening of morale, hope, expectations, and skills, and everyone will start assigning reasons – better known as excuses – as to why the team is unable to attain its targets.
– Grant Cardone

No balls, no glory. It doesn’t take money to make money. It takes courage to make money. You have got to step outside the box.
– Grant Cardone

Success is no different than any other skill. Duplicate the actions and mind-sets of successful people, and you will create success for yourself.
– Grant Cardone

You know the government is in trouble when I get audited twice in one year.
– Grant Cardone

All the excuses in the world won’t change one simple fact: that fear is a sign to do whatever it is you fear – and do it quickly… I am scared most of the time. However, I refuse to feed my fear with time and allow it to get stronger. I opt instead to get things done quickly.
– Grant Cardone

Being comfortable is a compromise.
– Grant Cardone

Success Pledge:

I pledge a commitment to My Success, My Family’s Success and to the Successful Survival of the company I represent. Success is not an option for me but something I insist! Success is not something others can give to me, that the government or the economy can provide me. Success is not determined by luck, chance, race, creed, color or religion but hard work, creativity, follow through and persistence. I refuse to not have My Success. I refuse to quit prior to My Success and I will do everything ethical in claiming my right to My Success. My Success is My Duty, My Obligation and My Responsibility.
– Grant Cardone

When you are fearful or insecure, remind yourself that you’re simply feeling what most other people experience. You are probably doing something that is new for you or that you are excited about. Fear is a normal feeling, and I would be more concerned if you didn’t experience it.
– Grant Cardone

Never lower your target; increase your actions.
– Grant Cardone

Never lower your price, add value.
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You will not have a successful life surrounded by negative people.
– Grant Cardone

When I was 26 years old, I was in retail and the store I worked in closed at 7 pm; most times you could find me there at 11 pm, making an extra sale. Never try to be the smartest or luckiest person; just make sure you outwork everyone.
– Grant Cardone

Tap into delusional wackos like me.
– Grant Cardone

When you miscalculate the efforts you need to make something happen, you become visibly disappointed and discouraged. This causes you to incorrectly identify the problem and sooner or later assume that the target is unattainable and ultimately throw in the towel. Most people’s – including managers’ – first response is to reduce the target rather than increase their activity.
– Grant Cardone

Better to be disliked by others than to be disliked by yourself.
– Grant Cardone

Comfortable is a drug.
– Grant Cardone

Robots are no longer just coming to a movie theater near you; they are taking jobs from anyone and everyone who is average in the service sector… Greatness is the ultimate protection offered by the exceptional that can NEVER be replaced by a computer, automation, a lower price or the Internet.
– Grant Cardone

I almost left my wife for Twitter. She thinks I did.
– Grant Cardone

People are dying in this country at the age of 25 and they’re not making it official ’til they’re 70.
– Grant Cardone

I’ve been labeled obsessive. A banker called me bipolar yesterday on the phone. Bipolar, ADD, these are not diseases, these are gifts. You show me someone running four companies and I’ll show you someone who has got attention on 50 things while you’re talking to him.
– Grant Cardone

Don’t watch the news… make the news. You don’t read the newspaper, you write newspaper articles. You don’t read books, yeah, you read books, but learn to write them.
– Grant Cardone

If you know what day it is, you’re not busy enough.
– Grant Cardone

That’s what the marketplace does: it basically disciplines anybody that refuses to discipline himself.
– Grant Cardone

The people that are winning in this planet, the people that win don’t have rules. It doesn’t mean they’re unethical, it means they’re there to take care of their family first, show me somebody, show me a husband or a mother that will do anything for their family. I can make them into a sales person.
– Grant Cardone

In life you don’t get what you are worth, you get what you negotiate. Learn how to close!
– Grant Cardone

You don’t get burnout – you lose purpose! You lose your meaning. When I’m tired, I look at my purpose.
– Grant Cardone

Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens. Action wins.
– Grant Cardone

When value exceeds price, people give money.
– Grant Cardone

If you’re not sold, you’re not gonna be aggressive. “Oh, but I’m not an aggressive type.” You are when you’re sold. Remember when you were three years old? You were aggressive then, weren’t you? How many of you have kids? “Hey! Gimme that right now! I want it right now!” My kid is two and a half years old. Kids don’t sell, kids close.
– Grant Cardone

There is no way God put us here to be ordinary.
– Grant Cardone

You won’t get much done if you only grind on the days you feel good.
– Grant Cardone

Do the things you don’t wanna do, so that one day you can do the things that you wanna do. Pay the price! Sacrifice something!
– Grant Cardone

Make yourself the expert at something and be easy for people to get to and remember.
– Grant Cardone

The thing about average is that it disappoints everyone that tries to make sense of it!
– Grant Cardone

Don’t expect others to promote you if you won’t promote you.
– Grant Cardone

If you ever misplace your passion just increase your skills, your passion will find you again.
– Grant Cardone

If you don’t know how to close, you’ll be depending on hope, luck and magic to make money.
– Grant Cardone

Making excuses won’t change your situation; only getting to the real reason behind it can do this. Excuses are for people who refuse to take responsibility for their life and how it turns out.
– Grant Cardone

Be great because nothing else pays.
– Grant Cardone

I don’t go to work to work. I hate that saying! I want you to go to work to prosper. Go to work for freedom. This is what wealthy people do different than anybody else. Wealthy people work for freedom. They’re not working for comfort items, not for a weekend, they’re working for freedom.
– Grant Cardone

A lack of purpose will find your demons. You wanna find out if the devil exists? Just take white space, put it on a calendar, have nothing to do for two days, three days, four days. Get bored enough, get no-purpose. A lack of clarity in your life and we will find your demons, the dementia, the insanity… the evil snakes that live in your mind, because everybody’s got them. But when you’re busy, I don’t see them. When you’re producing on your purpose-line, I don’t see them.
– Grant Cardone

If you resent other people making money, you will never make money.
– Grant Cardone

Take 10 minutes and write down what you wanted to do when everything seemed possible.
– Grant Cardone

Commitment isn’t measured by doing the things you want to do but doing the things you don’t want to do when you don’t want to do them. This is how you get FREEDOM – sacrifice a few years for a life!
– Grant Cardone

You be patient… I’m in a hurry.
– Grant Cardone

Independence is something you have to work hard to get and harder to keep.
– Grant Cardone

The goal is not comfort, it is freedom!
– Grant Cardone

I have been studying millionaires in order to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study him or her. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.
– Grant Cardone

To rich people, money is survival. To poor people, money is evil.
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Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.
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More money isn’t greed – it’s duty.
– Grant Cardone

Self-confidence is more important than product or price. Or your brand or your title. Self-confidence is everything. Self-confidence can be grown and must be grown.
– Grant Cardone

Don’t go to work to work, go to work to prosper.
– Grant Cardone

The only reason to save money is to invest it. Put your saved money into secured, sacred (untouchable) accounts. Never use these accounts for anything – not even an emergency. This will force you to continue to follow step one (increase income). Still to this day, at least twice a year I am broke because I always invest my surpluses into ventures I cannot access.
– Grant Cardone

I define success as the difference between my potential and my reality.
– Grant Cardone

Economics is not about meditation, or psychiatry. Or some sofa that you sit on and let some esoteric forces somehow take care of you and your family. This is about your life. You’re in a you-eat-what-you-kill economy.
– Grant Cardone

Spectators pay – players get paid.
– Grant Cardone

Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority.
– Grant Cardone

Your network is your networth.
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The single biggest financial mistake I’ve made was not thinking big enough. I encourage you to go for more than a million. There is no shortage of money on this planet, only a shortage of people thinking big enough.
– Grant Cardone

Go out on your own or get into a performance-compensated position.
– Grant Cardone, on employees

Comfort is a disease. And it’s what the media wants you to do. It’s definitely what the big pharmaceutical companies want you to do. They want you to get comfortable. All the big money on this planet actually wants you to get comfortable so you just sit back and become a passive spectator in the game of life.
– Grant Cardone

Comfort makes more prisoners than all the jails combined.
– Grant Cardone

Quit spending your future wealth on goods and services that you want today but deprive you of wealth long term.
– Grant Cardone

Rich people don’t get rich by accident and poor people don’t stay poor by accident – both take effort – both are work.
– Grant Cardone

Dumb things people say & what they mean:

1. Patience is a virtue.
(what they are really saying) I am not in a hurry to do anything.

2. I just want to be comfortable.
(what they are really saying) A life with me will be long and miserable.

3. Money won’t make you happy.
(what they are really saying) I am broke and trying to make sense of it.

4. It’s the journey, not the destination.
(what they are really saying) I have no clue where I am going.

5. I don’t have time.
(what they are really saying) Time is my “go to” excuse.

6. I’m living the dream.
(what they are really saying) I compare myself to others that have less.

7. I will do it when I get to it.
(what they are really saying) I’m overwhelmed and will never get to it.

8. That’s impossible.
(what they are really saying) I quit before I even try.

9. Time heals.
(what they are really saying) I’m sick of hearing about your problems.

10. We can’t do that.
(what they are really saying) I use policy when convenient.

11. It takes money to make money.
(what they are really saying) I lack courage so I brag about being broke.

12. Thank God it’s Friday.
(what they are really saying) I wasted the whole week.

13. Can’t wait for the weekend.
(what they are really saying) I’m not productive and hate my job.

14. I hate Mondays.
(what they are really saying) No clue what I’m doing this week.

15. I’m only human.
(what they are really saying) I’m a walking billboard for screw-ups.

16. I will be happy when…
(what they are really saying) I am not happy and never will be.

17. I am too old (too young).
(what they are really saying) I only think about myself.

18. It is what it is.
(what they are really saying) I play Candy Crush a lot.

19. I am trying.
(what they are really saying) I am about to quit.
– Grant Cardone

Why is the middle class failing?
– 3/4 of Americans are living from paycheck to paycheck
– 50% have less than 3 months of cushion
– 27% have no savings.
– Grant Cardone

Three things in life you must have:
1) health
2) love
3) purpose
Money supports #3 and can’t buy the first two.
– Grant Cardone

Persistence is the single most common trait of the most successful.
– Grant Cardone

Ways to boost confidence:
1. Be a pro! Language and attire count.
2. Be the first one there.
3. Have a great attitude.
4. Gain knowledge.
5. Bring in revenue.
– Grant Cardone

Great sales people know how to get into your wallet without getting under your skin.
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You will either get what you want or you will be used by others to get what they want.
– Grant Cardone

The bigger the problems and the more people who benefit from the solution the more powerful your success will be.
– Grant Cardone

If you don’t feel good about yourself buying stuff won’t help.
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If the people around you are giving you advice to slow down or to take it easy – you are surrounded by the wrong people.
– Grant Cardone