Grant Cardone 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?

Become so sold, so convinced, so committed to your company, product, and service that you believe it would be a terrible thing for the buyer to do business anywhere else with any other product.

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.

Most people do not attack their projects with “I-have-to-get-it-done-now” urgency and therefore they do not get it done. Most people never commit like fanatics, and therefore they never become fantastic.

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.

No commitment equals no results.

A little imagination combined with massive action goes a long way.

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

A talented entrepreneur with bad habits eventually becomes an employee. An average employee with great habits can eventually become a great entrepreneur.

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.

Your ability to do well in life depends on your ability to sell others on the things in which you believe!

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.

Focus on making yourself feel excited, powerful. Imagine yourself destroying goals with ease.” “You have to believe that you can achieve anything.” “You can become rich, you can become strong, you can take care of your loved ones and enjoy the fact that it will be very difficult.

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.

At the end of the day, it all comes down to how bad you freakin' want it. That's 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.

The individual who combines a great attitude with a great product becomes unstoppable!

Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.

Aligning with other’s self interest is easier than persuading them to do what you want.

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.

When I started studying other obsessive types who were super successful and stopped seeking advice from those who were settling for average lives, average results, average money, average everything and who were never obsessed with anything except defending average, that’s when I began to really live.

There will be times when you’ll have to handle the buyer on money. Sometimes I remind a person, “While I agree it’s a lot of money for a gift, there’s no shortage of money on this planet. But there is a shortage of people who’ve found the love of their life and who know how to show their appreciation for that person. Be grateful you’ve got someone to love. Now, how would you like to handle this?” Now that’s selling! If the buyer is totally convinced it’s right, he will chew off his own foot to have it!

It’s a bad idea to ignore your ambitions, your energy, your obsession, but it’s even worse to let them take their own course. They can be like wild horses, running full speed in every direction, wasting energy and resources with lots of effort that produces nothing.

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

La ineludible verdad es que, para ser realmente bueno en algo, debes entregarte por completo a ello.

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.

I came to Canada as a teenager with no money, no contacts, and no knowledge of English.

Believe that your intuition will give you the answers when you ask yourself questions. Give your question to your intuition rather than trying to think it through or analyse it.

Just going on the market, making connections, learning from people, getting round the appropriate individuals and taking risks is really what modified my life

If ONE out of 15 ideas succeed that’s better than 99% of your friends who never start a single idea.

Don't buy things you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you don't like it.

Life is all in the setup.

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

The burden of the entire economy of our culture today rests on the ability of salespeople.

No person will ever gain true power and stature in the world without the ability to persuade others.

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.

Problems are opportunities, and conquered opportunities equal money earned.

Vender (según el Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary) es la acción de persuadir o influir los actos o la aceptación de alguien más.

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!

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.

There’s a popular saying that you are the composite of the five people you spend the most time with. Look around: If the people you see aren’t screaming success, they are validating average.

If most of your customers are grinding you on price, then your level of service is not obvious to them. Otherwise, they wouldn't grind you on just price because they would value the service you're giving them.

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.

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

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.

GET BEYOND THE ONE-MAN SHOW Great organizations are never one-man operations. There are 22 million licensed small businesses in America that have no employees. Forbes suggests 75 percent of all businesses operate with one person. And the average income of those companies is a sad $44,000. That’s not a business—that’s torture. That is a prison where you are both the warden and the prisoner. What makes a person start a business and then be the only person who works there? Are they committed to staying small? Or maybe an entrepreneur decides that because the talent pool is so poor, they can’t hire anyone who can do it as well as them, and they give up. My guess is the latter: Most people have just given up and said, “It’s easier if I just do it myself.” I know, because that’s what I did—and it was suicidal. Because my business was totally dependent on me and only me, I was barely able to survive, much less grow, for the first ten years. Instead I contracted another company to promote my seminars. When I hired just one person to assist me out of my home office, I thought I was so smart: Keep it small. Keep expenses low. Run a tight ship. Bigger isn’t always better. These were the things I told myself to justify not growing my business. I did this for years and even bragged about how well I was doing on my own. Then I started a second company with a partner, a consulting business that ran parallel to my seminar business. This consulting business quickly grew bigger than my first business because my partner hired people to work for us. But even then I resisted bringing other people into the company because I had this idea that I didn’t want the headaches and costs that come with managing people. My margins were monster when I had no employees, but I could never grow my revenue line without killing myself, and I have since learned that is where all my attention and effort should have gone. But with the efforts of one person and one contracted marketing company, I could expand only so much. I know that a lot of speakers and business gurus run their companies as one-man shows. Which means that while they are giving advice to others about how to grow a business, they may have never grown one themselves! Their one-man show is simply a guy or gal going out, collecting a fee, selling time and a few books. And when they are out speaking, the business terminates all activity. I started studying other people and companies that had made it big and discovered they all had lots of employees. The reality is you cannot have a great business if it’s just you. You need to add other people. If you don’t believe me, try to name one truly great business that is successful, ongoing, viable, and growing that doesn’t have many people making it happen. Good luck. Businesses are made of people, not just machines, automations, and technology. You need people around you to implement programs, to add passion to the technology, to serve customers, and ultimately to get you where you want to go. Consider the behemoth online company Amazon: It has more than 220,000 employees. Apple has more than 100,000; Microsoft has around the same number. Ernst & Young has more than 200,000 people. Apple calls the employees working in its stores “Geniuses.” Don’t you want to hire employees deserving of that title too? Think of how powerful they could make your business.