Grant Cardone 10x Quotes

As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.

You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose.

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.

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.

until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you're not going away—that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project—you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.

Weak and overwhelmed individuals respond to others' success by attacking it.

One of the major differences between successful and unsuccessful people is that the former look for problems to resolve, whereas the latter make every attempt to avoid them.

What if the only thing standing in the way of your greatness was that you just had to go after everything obsessively, persistently, and as though your life depended on it?

Never take the position that things just happen to you; rather, they happen because of something you did or did not do.

Success tends to bless those who are most committed to giving it the most attention.

Average is a failing plan! 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.

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.

Wake up! No one is going to save you. No one is going to take care of your family or your retirement. No one is going to “make things” work out for you. The only way to do so is to utilize every moment of every day at 10X levels.

Think about it: What's the worst thing that can happen to you if you just totally go for it?

The moment you start thinking someone else's gain is your loss, you limit yourself by thinking in terms of competition and shortages.

it is better to make something happen—good or bad—than to have it happen to you.

Don't be confused by what looks like luck to you. Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.

Extremely successful people know that their efforts must continue in order for them to realize new achievements. Once the hunt for a desired object or goal is abandoned, the cycle of success comes to an end.

I would rather fail pushing forward than in retreat.

Realistic thinking is based on what others think is possible—but they are not you and have no way of knowing your potential and purposes.

criticism precedes admiration and—like it or not—goes hand in hand with success.

Do kids benefit when they see their moms and dads losing or quitting?

Treating success as an option is one of the major reasons why more people don't create it for themselves—and why most people don't even get close to living up to their full potential.

in order to get to the next level of whatever you're doing, you must think and act in a wildly different way than you previously have been. You cannot get to the next phase of a project without a grander mind-set, more acceleration, and extra horsepower.

There are certain things in life that have limits, but you don't unless you impose limits on yourself.

Average assumes—incorrectly, of course—that everything operates stably. People optimistically overestimate how well things will go and then underestimate how much energy and effort it will take just to push things through. Anyone who has made it in business will support this concept.

That is what lower performers do; they make others wrong for doing what is necessary in order to make themselves feel okay about doing nothing! The highest performers—the winners—respond by studying successful people and duplicating success.

You must set targets that are 10 times what you think you want and then do 10 times what you think it will take to accomplish those targets. Massive thoughts must be followed by massive actions.

work is better than vacation—and it is important to have a purpose to wake up each day.

This is the problem with many members of the middle class. They go after what they've deemed necessary rather than ever going really big.

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams!

Disciplined, consistent, and persistent actions are more of a determining factor in the creation of success than any other combination of things.

success is not something that happens to you; it's something that happens because of you and because of the actions you take. People who refuse to take responsibility generally

One of the greatest turning points in my life occurred when I stopped casually waiting for success and instead started to approach it as a duty, obligation, and responsibility.

Regardless of the timing, the economy, the product, or how big your venture is, the right acts done to the right degree over time will make you successful.

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.

1. Mistargeting by setting objectives that are too low and don't allow for enough correct motivation. 2. Severely underestimating what it will take in terms of actions, resources, money, and energy to accomplish the target. 3. Spending too much time competing and not enough time dominating their sector. 4. Underestimating the amount of adversity they will need to overcome in order to actually attain their desired goal.

A person who limits his or her potential success will limit what he or she will do to create it and keep it.

Obsession is what you will need to set 10X goals and to follow them up with 10X actions. Remember

When you are taking massive action, you aren't thinking in terms of how many hours you work.

Never set realistic goals; you can get a realistic life without setting goals for it. I

You have to approach the notion of success the way good parents approach their duty to their children; it's an honor, an obligation, and a priority.

It takes the same amount of energy to have a great marriage as it does an average one, just as it takes the same amount of energy and effort to make $10 million as it does $10,000.

Whether I am in control or not, I still elect to claim responsibility and control so that I can do something to improve my situation going forward.

the purpose here is to discuss the idea that crybabies, whiners, and victims just don't do well at attracting or creating success.

To really go at it in life and in business, you have to say yes to everything. It's something you'll see successful people do time and again—not because they can but because they choose to say yes. They eagerly engage in life and realize that the word “yes” has more life and possibilities in it—and

Forward thinkers don't copy. They don't compete—they create.

Those who retreat will spend a lot of time justifying why they are retreating.

Any target attacked with the right actions in the right amounts with persistence is attainable.

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

No one will benefit from your failure. However, if you were able to reverse it and attain the goals and dreams you set for yourself—now, that would be something.

An interesting thing about success is that it's like a breath of air; although your last breath of air is important, it's not nearly as important as the next one.

Being careful requires you to take actions cautiously—and there is no way that you will ever hit 10X activity levels by being cautious.

most valuable chips you have are your mind-set, actions, persistence, and creativity.

Anyone that suggests to me to do less is either not a real friend or very confused!” —

I love the feeling that comes with being obsessed about an idea, and I admire seeing others who are that fanatical.

A person who limits his or her potential success will limit what he or she will do to create it and keep it. It

The goal has to be more valuable than the risk—or you have determined the wrong target. So

Commit First—Figure Out Later At

we are required to live up to the potential with which we've each been blessed. I even suggest that failing to insist upon abundant amounts of success is somewhat unethical.

burn the place down. Don't rest, and don't stop—ever.

If you quit caring, then you quit winning; quit winning long enough, and you will just plain quit!

Lucky people don't make successful people; people who completely commit themselves to success seem to get lucky in life.

The 10X Rule is based on understanding how much effort and thought are required to get anything done successfully.

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions.

If the people around you are giving you advice to slow down or to take it easy – you are surrounded by the wrong people.

Good things don't happen to victims; bad things do—quite frequently—and all you have to do is ask them.

If you don't consider it your duty to live up to your potential, then you simply won't.

My disappointment or dissatisfaction with where I am at this moment does not suggest that something is wrong with me but rather that something is right with me.

Nothing happens to you; it happens because of you.

challenges. The idea of being overwhelmed, I believe, is the result of never taking enough action to generate enough winning.

Think about the last time you got hurt. You were probably trying to protect something right before it happened.

Anyone who uses blame as the reason why something happened or did not happen will never accumulate real success in life and only further his or her status as a slave on this planet.

Because the lower performers are not willing to step up and take responsibility to increase their production, they can only seek to tear down those who are performing at higher levels.

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.

Extremely successful people know that their efforts must continue in order for them to realize new achievements. Once the hunt for a desired object or goal is abandoned, the cycle of success comes to an end. Someone

You have to approach the notion of success the way good parents approach their duty to their children; it's an honor, an obligation, and a priority. Good parents will do whatever it takes to take care of their children.

Criticism is defined as the judgment of the merits and faults of the work or actions of one individual by another. Although “criticizing” does not necessarily mean “to imply fault,” the word is often taken to mean prejudice or disapproval.

What if the world encouraged obsession instead of judging it? What if the only thing standing in the way of your greatness was that you just had to go after everything obsessively, persistently, and as though your life depended on it? Well—it does! Would

The best revenge is massive success.” She advised me to move forward with such great momentum and so much of a presence that every time these people woke up, turned the TV on, or made a business move, they would see my face—and be reminded of how well I was doing.

How do you stay motivated?” The answer? I create new reasons to keep showing up. The unsuccessful unceasingly suggest, “If I had what [that person] had, I would retire.” But I don't believe this claim for a second. First of all, they don't know if that's true, since they can't tell how they'd respond to success.

My daughter merely gave me another reason to create success—not an excuse to avoid working more. She is sheer motivation for me to do well because now I'm doing it for her as well as for myself. You cannot blame your family for keeping you from creating the success you deserve. They should be the reason why you want to succeed!

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions. When you start rethinking your targets, making up excuses, and letting yourself off the hook, you are giving up on your dreams! These actions should be an indication that you're getting off track - that you should begin thinking in terms of correcting your initial estimation of effort.

Although success can describe an accomplished feat, people usually don't study success in terms of something they have done. They go at it with a mind toward something they are seeking to do. An interesting thing about success is that it's like a breath of air; although your last breath of air is important, it's not nearly as important as the next one. No

Good things don't happen to victims; bad things do—quite frequently—and all you have to do is ask them. Those who embrace the victim position will gladly go on and on to you about how they had nothing to do with their many bad breaks and misfortunes in life that seem to strike them time and again throughout their lives. There are four consistent factors in the life of the victim: (1) bad things happen to them, (2) bad things happen often, (3) they are always involved, and (4) someone or something else is always to blame.

You're not born into apathy. You're not born into retreat. You're not even born into average. You're born at a massive action level. This was certainly true for me for the first ten years of my life. Man, I was a non-stop massive action little freak. Except when I was sleeping, I was tripping all the time! Like most kids, I was full out all the time with people frowning and hinting that maybe I should bring it down a notch or two and in some cases, many notches. Did that happen to you? I bet it did. Did you do it to your kids? Have you done it to them? Have you killed your kids? Have you told them retreat, be average? Back off? Be seen and not heard? See, until adults started telling you otherwise, you didn't know anything but massive action.

Excuses are never the reason for why you did or didn't do something. They're just a revision of the facts that you make up in order to help yourself feel better about what happened (or didn't).

Commit First, Figure it Out Later

Retreaters claim to be doing so in order to avoid more rejection and/or failures; it is almost never the actual rejection or failure that has impacted them. More often than not, it's their impression and evaluation of what failing and rejection mean that is causing them to retreat.

Grant I have bad news. The networks don't want you to come pitch the show. Instead, they want to start shooting right away.” The first thing I thought of was the guy who had told me, “For every TV show that gets made, 300 are pitched.” The second thing I thought of was the person who told me that no one wanted to see a show on sales. (Stay focused on the future, be unreasonable about it, continue to add wood, and don't focus on what people say has been done, can be done, or is possible!)

When you hear what average people say and think, thank them for their advice. Then remind them that you want their support in going for it, and let them know that you would rather commit to your dreams and goals and be disappointed than never commit and be disappointed. Let

And always remember to follow through completely: That is the great common denominator of all winners. They see every action through to completion.

Then take the following into account: (1) You are setting these for you—not for anyone else. (2) Anything is possible. (3) You have much more potential than you realize. (4) Success is your duty, obligation, and responsibility. (5) There is no shortage of success. (6) Regardless of the size of the goal, it will require work.

You either create success or you don't—and it isn't for whiners, crybabies, and victims.

Manage every action as though you have a camera on you every step of the way. Pretend you're being recorded as a model by which your children and grandchildren will learn how to succeed in life. Attack everything with the ferociousness of a champion athlete who is getting his last opportunity to claim his pages in the history books. And always remember to follow through completely: That is the great common denominator of all winners.

I was going to call this chapter “Don't Be a Little Bitch” but decided to back off a bit so as not to offend anyone.

FEAR stands for False Events Appearing Real, which aptly implies that most of what you're afraid of doesn't ever come to pass.

luck is just one of the byproducts of those who take the most action.

If you are willing to take credit when you win, you have to take credit when you don't!

To get where you want to go in life, you must adopt the view that whatever is going on in your world—good, bad, or nothing—is something caused by you.