Episode 238: Grant Cardone's Most Controversial Interview with Patrick Bet-David
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Summary
In this episode of Altaim, host Patrick Bedevio sits down with Grant Cardone, CEO of 10X from Miami, Florida. Grant and I talk about how he started his company, how he got started in business, and what it takes to be the "Benjamin Button" of business.
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30 seconds, one time for the underdog, ignition sequence start, let me see you put em up, reach
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the sky, touch the stars up above, cause it's one time for the underdog, one time for the
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I'm Patrick Bedevio, host of Altaim and in today's interview I'm sitting down with Grant
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Cardone and let's just say this is an uncensored, unfiltered interview with him where you will
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probably laugh your tail off, be entertained and pick up a few hacks that you can apply
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It's good to be here man, this is a pretty good city you're living in here by the way.
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It's pretty alright as well that you're not paying taxes, we're in California so there's
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It's unbelievable that you would drive across country, California would still grab money
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They're not making your trip better, they're not adding quality to your business, they're
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Does anybody from the state of California come to you and say, let me show you how to make
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I just know buddies that have prostitutes, right?
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But Grant, let me ask you, I want to start off with a very serious question.
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I want to start off with a very serious question.
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What is your secret to being the Benjamin Button of business, man?
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Every time I see you look younger, every single time.
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You know, I mean, that's for another show, I think.
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Because people wouldn't even believe what keeps me young.
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Well, I mean, you know, I think I'm in the game.
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I think when I'm in my game completely and, like, on purpose and doing what I'm supposed to be doing,
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I'm most alive and I'm youngest at those moments.
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You know, I know people that knew me 20 years ago and they're like,
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dude, you actually look younger and act younger than you were 20 years ago.
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If you look up the word live, our life, as a physics term, it means to expand.
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If you look up expand, it means to grow and change.
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And when I'm in that part of the cycle, then I'm rejuvenating something.
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And I know, if you know older guys, they're like, oh, I'm not going to check into that.
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They're on the end of their cycle and they start showing it in their face and their life and their kids.
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So how do you go about not subscribing to that mindset?
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I'm getting older, you know, I'm getting tired.
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Yeah, I just like, man, I just want to be in the game.
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I mean, I've participated in the downward cycle and I know how it made me feel.
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I like finding people saying, man, the way you opened this video was wrong.
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Like, I need to find that edge to experience life.
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Because that's very important what you just said.
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This is probably one of the most difficult things I see with entrepreneurs.
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And you don't hear a lot of people talking about this.
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There's a lot of key to success, all this stuff.
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How do you balance not giving a crap about all the judgment you're getting and yet still
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Because there's some people that don't give a crap, but people don't like them.
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And there are some people that are very sincere, but they're afraid of what other people think.
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It's a bit of chaos happening with a little bit of management.
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And I don't think in terms of managing things much or balance.
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When I think of the word balance, I think of managing something, trying to make something
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You and I talked about this before, about being perfect.
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But, you know, look, the way for me to do it is to go wide.
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If I can find 7 billion people, I know for sure I can get half of them to like me.
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You know, I think half the people on planet Earth would like me.
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And the other half, hey, you know, maybe they're never going to have an opinion on me or maybe
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Whether they like you or not you're getting paid.
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As long as I keep expanding my base, you know, I could be perfect for everybody in the room.
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Half the people are still going to be like, you know, he's too cocky, he's too this, he's
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When I finally said, you know what, I'm done, dude.
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The more energy I spent trying to please people, make you happy, them happy, mom happy, daddy
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You know, I want to create the life I want for me.
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And if you don't like that life, you probably don't even like your life.
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Because that's the people that ended up criticizing me.
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Yeah, I was just curious because, you know, a lot of times you see people that are uncomfortable.
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Like, they feel like they have to please everybody.
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Sometimes they get, you know, into relations, they try to please everybody.
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He was the guy trying to please everybody, man.
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Like, the first year of high school, I guess that's the 12th grade, not the 12th grade,
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They nominated me for most successful in high school.
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The next year, the next two years, I couldn't be, they could not, I could not win dog catcher.
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Because once I got comfortable with everybody liking me, or whatever part of me they liked,
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And then all of a sudden, I didn't fit in anymore.
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See, I wasn't free to be me as long as there was a popularity contest.
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You weren't free to be you as long as it was a popularity contest.
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Because I had to be popular under their guidelines.
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Okay, I had to dress the way they dress, talk the way they talk.
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So I think part of being an identical twin is when you're brought up, everything is a comparison.
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And so I've been searching for my independence.
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I think probably everybody goes through this, but I was searching for my independence the whole time.
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And as much as I love my brother, I still didn't want to be compared to him forever or to other people in my field today as a grown-up.
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So look at if you're going to be – look at Obama, okay, on the other end of the spectrum.
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I hate to put all three of those people in the same.
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He's the president of the United States for eight years, man.
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So if you can get people, if you can just be you, and if you have a real message, you know, something authentic,
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and then you can express that, you know, I think you're going to at least be happy.
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When did you realize you were going to go into sales business?
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Like when did the transition into sales and business get started?
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I had to sell to pay for – to have some money.
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I was in a refinery town, a labor town, and there was no jobs.
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They're based on oil and gas and refining oil and gas and rednecks in town, you know, very, very southern.
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I say redneck with a lot of admiration, by the way.
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Because what I would do in high school is I'd go take their girl, right?
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I'm like, yeah, but I hit on that last night, okay?
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I'm like, dang, man, this is hard being popular, you know?
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I almost cut my foot off at the refinery, and I needed money.
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My first job was selling clothes, selling furniture.
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What I would do is I was on this boat that we'd go out to the refineries about 60 miles offshore,
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There was three of us on it, and I was a bit of a cook.
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And one day in our free time, I'd say, hey, I'm going to fish.
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Oh, dude, I'd pull them up, a whole 75 fish on one line.
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We end up with, I mean, I don't know, hundreds and hundreds of pounds of fish.
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Two weeks later, we get back on shore, and I'm driving to my apartment that I'm paying $300 a month for.
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Well, I make more money selling these fish than I made two weeks of work and hard labor.
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I'm like, okay, I'm going to learn how to sell.
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Is that what caused you to go from hating sales at first to loving it?
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No, I still hated sales because I was sucked at it, dude.
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The reason I sold all those fish and made the money is because the freaking ice was melting.
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I was forced because of the urgency to get rid of the fish.
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So I had to knock on doors because if I didn't freaking sell this fish today, it was going to go bad.
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So to me, I was looking at money a little bit, right?
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Then I didn't start professional sales for another two years, and I was awful at it.
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Well, the first thing that happens is you get dropped into this environment where you're around other car salesmen.
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You know, they're drinking coffee, and they're complaining.
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And I'm stuck in this environment, this cesspool of negativity.
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You have a bunch of successes in the first week.
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And then the next thing you know, you have now submitted to this environment, this cesspool, this old soup of negativity.
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And so I did two years of being drugged down into the freaking car sales.
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You know how many times I hear stories about that in car sales?
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The environment of car sales is interesting sometimes.
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Some bad habits you can pick up in that environment.
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But, you know, there's a lot of bad environments, right?
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I was just in Prague, and a cab driver picks me up.
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And we were coming out of the Four Seasons, and the cab driver comes out.
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She's all empathetic, and I want to freaking crack him in the head, right?
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You got a couple of Americans coming out of the Four Seasons, walking into your car.
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So this is in a country where they don't even know, man, that you can get up and do something spectacular with life.
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I mean, they've literally given up because the government's been taking care of them so long.
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How do you shift that mindset of entitlement into knowing that you can rise up and do it on your own?
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But you look at some of the guys that are in an environment, maybe they've been babied by their mother.
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Maybe they've been babied in a family where there's money and everything.
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This guy was basically, he was babied by a communist regime that shut his hole.
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Like, for 60 years, they just didn't have a choice.
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So the opposite of the word live is actually, I would look this up last night, succumb.
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He had hit the opposite of live, which is succumb.
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If I told him, man, you could actually go out and do something today, I'm telling you, he's a dead man.
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It's not just a politician selling it that I'll take care of you.
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But if you turn the TV on, it's one of the reasons we created this studio, this network.
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If you turn the TV on, you're going to hear bad news, bad news, bad news.
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But then the ads that follow the bad news, dude, the ads.
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I mean, it's ad after ad after ad about why you have actually felt, it's kind of going back to what we're talking about right now.
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Regardless of my age, I want to be in the upward cycle of creation.
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So how do you prevent from falling towards the entitlement, falling for the handouts?
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You have to control your environment and your culture at home and at work.
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Like if you walk in my office, I don't know if any of my staff came out and said hello to you.
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That means I've got to get rid of some people that don't have that.
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I'm proud of my turnover because I, you see, the guy says, man, I got so many loyal employees.
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So I need to control my environment to keep positive people that don't want to be entitled,
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that do want to pay the price, that are willing to suffer a bit in a different way because that kid in the taxi is suffering.
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You cannot try to please everybody by keeping everybody.
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You know what I mean is when you say you have a high turnover?
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You can't please everybody and keep everybody with you all the time.
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Let's just say you're sitting there and interviewing somebody.
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Can you really, I guess this would be the question.
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Can I really in an interview tell you're a stud or do I only learn about you?
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Not in the state of California, you can't even ask them anything.
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You can't ask age, you can't ask sex, you can't ask preferences, you can't ask, are you on drugs?
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You can't ask, you know, what do you do at night?
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So you in California and in Miami, really, I can't actually find out who somebody is.
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So we created a TV show called Whatever It Takes, The Ultimate Job Interview, where we
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set up an interview process and told people this is not a job interview, this is a TV show.
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This is not a job interview, this is a TV show.
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And when it's a TV show, dude, I can ask you everything.
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I can grab your phone in the interview and start going through your pictures.
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Hey, I can ask that question now because it's a TV show, okay?
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I grabbed phones of every one of them and started going through it.
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He's got 16 oxycodone tablets after he lied to me.
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And he's got them in his freaking bag in a little cellophane.
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I end up with seven or eight guys that I want to start freaking running through the program.
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Because if you're going to be successful, it's not the education.
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You know, you and I have completely different stories about where we came from.
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When it's tough, when it's hard, when it's scary, will you do whatever it takes to take
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care of your wife, your kids, ethically, to take care of yourself?
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You know, I can go down and look at their car and find out they can't even take care of
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Look, if you can't take care of your car, how are you going to take care of your job?
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You are dead meticulous in your hiring process.
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Like, is there a trend where you say, look for boom, boom, boom?
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The trend has been like this for 200 years, man.
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You know, your grandparents and my grandparents knew about work.
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Okay, the only reason they stopped is because the candles went out there.
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But freaking, they didn't have any wax for life.
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I mean, you can't even get up to get a remote anymore.
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You get pissed off if you got to freaking find your remote today.
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I'm like, baby, don't look at the freaking map in the phone, man.
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You got to learn where the exit is so you can know where we are.
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Otherwise, the awareness just keeps going down.
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Is that a, if it's a bad thing, how do you get to 10x?
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9 to 5 was a thing that came out with Ford Motor Company and working 9 to 5.
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I can't spend the money I've made in my lifetime.
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If you gave me $5 billion tomorrow, five big ones, I would be here tomorrow, on time,
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So, like, you guys are watching, looking at Facebook.
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I don't want to have, I don't want to be a spectator.
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I mean, part of the 10X was like, get off, get out of the stands, and back on the field.
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That's where the game, that's where you get hit.
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You know, that's, my life is not in the stands.
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Obviously, you know, the way you and I got connected is one of our guys in our company,
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He tells everybody, everyone's got to read this book 10X.
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Of all of the first four books that I've written, this is the one when I was done, I was like,
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This book took, I don't know, maybe three months, 90 days or something.
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And I just didn't like, I wasn't feeling it big time, right?
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Dude, this book, every day I hear people, I mean, man, that book woke me up.
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That book has caused me to go from making $3,000 a month to making $60,000 in the same month.
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A guy told me last night, the money was there the whole time.
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I just couldn't see it because like my eyelids were like, I was squinting at life.
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And this thing just like opened my eyes up to say, wow, how much could I do?
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And the 10X rule is basically about, look, you need to make goals that are giant.
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And that what happens is when the goal is attainable, it's no longer exciting.
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Because if you can go get it easily, you're going to take it for granted.
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If you can go get it easily, you're going to take it for granted.
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But I like milk to make froth for my cappuccino.
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And I want it now more than ever because it's not in there.
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So if it's attainable, if a million dollars was attainable to everybody, it wouldn't be worth anything.
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So I believe that the bigger the giant, the more unattainable the goal is, okay?
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Anyway, the least likely, if it's real for you, the least likely you are to give up on that goal.
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I think a lot of the reasons why you see people going down is because the goals are so low.
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Who could possibly be excited about making enough money to pay their bills?
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So one of the things I like about you, Grant, is-
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One of the things, yeah, when we had the interview, I mean, I really enjoyed the time with you a couple months ago.
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One of the things I really like about you and the reason why I send people to tell me, hey, who should I follow on YouTube or Facebook or Twitter and all that?
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And I'll tell you my number one reason why I tell everybody to follow you.
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I've got a top 25 Twitter accounts to follow on my website, PatrickWithDavid.com, and I tell them to follow you as one of them.
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Because I love people who are currently building.
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I'm currently engaged in building, not talking about, hey-
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So how do you, as somebody that's watching this, we've got a lot of YouTube experts.
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But you've got some of these guys that have just read books.
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And they get on YouTube and they say, you have to do this and you have to do that.
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And how does one tell the two apart to say, these are the real deal guys to follow and take their advice?
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Yeah, dude, look, you need to see their bank account, bro.
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You need to see their freaking where they live, what they're driving, okay?
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You guys are grabbing all these people as gurus and mentors.
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Because, look, there's no regulation on me saying I'm an expert.
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I'm an expert on the freaking upcoming election.
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Now, the fact is you need to look a little deeper after the guy says he's a YouTube or social media expert.
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And then you look and find out he's only got 2,000 people on a Facebook page.
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So, he might be an expert of getting money from you about something you don't know about social media.
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But he hadn't built his own freaking – and this kills me, man.
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I see – I know professional speakers that have been out touring the world for 25 years.
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I've got 55 employees in this one freaking building right here, dude.
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So, I'm figuring out how to build a business, a real business, and then multiply those businesses so I can create more opportunities for people.
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And the reason I say you need to look at, hey, what's their money like?
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I'm talking about material things because material things, when you start accumulating success, it's going to show up in some material things.
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There's no way that it's not going to show up somewhere.
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So, you need to look at the flow over should be happening.
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He has created a business, okay, that creates a lot of funds.
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He did a little bit of sales, general, some of that stuff that he did.
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Now, if I want to, I would watch Tony for marketing more than I would for motivation, personally.
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But I would rob from John and say, man, it was brilliant how he collaborates with so many people.
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And it brings him up, you know, through the collaboration.
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So, you got guys like Suzy Orman and Dave Ramsey and all these experts online that are going around telling everybody, you ought to do this and you ought to do that and you ought to do this.
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Both these guys have made a lot of money, okay?
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I mean, Dave Ramsey's got a freaking awesome, I mean, he's made a ton of money.
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I don't want to trade my net worth with Dave Ramsey.
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What they plugged into, what they both plugged into was the fear in America, okay?
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She's don't spend it and Dave's like, don't borrow it.
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Because what you need to know is you need to know how to create it.
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Spending's not a problem and debt's not a problem.
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And the networks are built on fear, as you know.
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The blonde, the crazy, wacko chick on the HLN number?
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I don't want to save my money to get rich and end up being an old man.
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Save your money, save your money, save your money.
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I mean, you probably know some people in your lineage that they saved every penny they had.
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Dude, when they died, they're like, everybody's like, oh, you had all that money?
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Because you're worried about the ability to create new income.
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So, when you interview a lot of people who don't know you, maybe they haven't followed you,
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and you interview people, people always look at the person being interviewed as more powerful
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What most people don't know is your network is a hundred million dollar guy.
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He said one of the most interesting things about this, and I'm curious what you think
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He said one of the most interesting things about it.
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He said, when the government prints money, and they printed roughly $3 trillion in the
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last few years, when the government prints money, it affects the middle income, low income
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guy, but the guy who's got money in credit, he gets rich because he goes out there and borrows
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If you could say a philosophy, because there's two things.
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There's a lot of guys that make a lot of money, but they don't have investments.
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And there's guys that have investments, but don't make a lot of money.
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How do you balance the two, where you're making a lot of money, but you're also increasing
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Because this is a part you've got to pay attention to.
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So I have my wealth, and what I do, I play this little trick with myself.
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I respect that and everything, but I think it's for little babies, little baby money,
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I take all the freaking free money I got, and I push it into this one deal.
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I make sure that basket is freaking solid, like the Ark, the Noah's Ark, okay?
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And so what happens over here is I'm broke now, so I got to create new money to pay my
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I will get as excited about saying this $25 day timer is doing a $25 million apartment deal
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because this is my survivability this month and allows me to create wealth for next-
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So it's constantly still selling your bread and butter and not becoming too big because
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this is another thing that impresses me about Grant.
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I really like the fact that as much money, the cars, all the stuff that you got, you know,
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when you see some of the videos that you do, you're still a pretty cool cat, humble.
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I mean, some of these guys come and they talk to you and they ask you some questions and
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you're thinking to yourself, you don't even have $200,000 to your name.
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I mean, I don't consider myself a humble person, but I don't think anybody would say I'm humble.
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I think some people would say, hey, dude, the guy's too cocky, too arrogant.
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I think I'm being mislabeled by people because I'm just telling you the truth.
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I think to some people, see, I don't care because I know this.
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If somebody doesn't like me, it's saying more about them than it is about me.
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If somebody doesn't like you, it's more about them than it is about you.
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I'm driving over here, you know, and then somebody looks over.
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I know there's somebody who's not going to like me driving a Rolls.
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But that's saying more about them than it's saying about me.
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You're not, when people hate on me, my wife, it kills my wife.
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She's like, oh my God, I hate, they say that about you, baby.
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Well, that's saying more about what you think about humility because I don't think I'm humble at all.
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I don't, it doesn't even register to be humble as a way to live life because for me, that would require me to be something else.
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I don't know about my DNA because I'm not a scientist.
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And, you know, the meek shall inherit the earth.
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I think people misunderstand a lot of this stuff, man.
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They take one line out of a big book that's this thick.
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There's also a whole bunch of shit in there about work.
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And if the meek are going to inherit this planet, I guarantee it's going to be a garbage dump by the time they get to it.
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Because the guys that are in a hurry are picking up the good shit.
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Is it important to become a million and become wealthy?
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First of all, everybody's going to have a million bucks.
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You make 50 grand a year and you do that for 20 years, you make a million dollars.
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You need to get rich and you need to get wealthy.
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He's saying you're at 33 minutes and 19 seconds.
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When they're being entertained, they don't care about time.
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And then, Paul, we're going to come back to you.
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Rich is important, but let me tell you what's really important.
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When I hear a guy say, I'm wealthy, I'm like, you got it all.
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If Donald Trump, I don't think Donald Trump's a wealthy guy.
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I guarantee if I run, it'll just be a marketing campaign.
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So, so, so, so, so, uh, uh, going back and, um, talking about this whole money thing and
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Let's, let's talk the income part and we'll wrap it up with a few fun things here.
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Um, how important is it to make seven figures today?
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But how important is it to make seven figures today?
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Cause you hear a lot of time where people say, well, I need to go into this.
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How important is it today for someone saying, I need to go make a decision to make seven figures?
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Well, I think, I think the answer to that question would be like, if you're making 40 grand,
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you don't, you know, you need to have that million dollar figure out there.
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But, but the first thing you got to do is you got to go from 40 to 60.
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I went from 40 to 60 and I'm like, okay, man, can I, can I, can I add another 10?
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I mean, just to start getting where you're like, okay, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm getting my head
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I'm actually working that one day I could have a little money left over.
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This is the problem with Susie Orman's, um, save money.
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And you try to save part of that four grand, you can only save so much.
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We know for sure you can only save up to 4,000 of it.
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It's easier to make another four than to save four.
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It's impossible actually to make four and save the whole four.
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You can't feed, you wouldn't be able to eat, right?
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People are trying to do the impossible right now.
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Dude, it's easier just to make another four grand.
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Four trillion dollars has been freaking manufactured.
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They'll, they're going to make, every dollar on this planet has been manufactured.
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I don't know why everybody's all excited about it.
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I like every freaking penny ever produced on this planet was manufactured by somebody.
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So you got to first decide there's no shortage.
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You know, clear up your thinking about what your daddy thinks a lot of money is and, and
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And then start thinking, okay, my first target should be 125.
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That gets you in the top 5% of all the earners on planet Earth.
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If you earn 125 grand a year, that's 10,000 bucks a month.
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You're, you're, you're, you're, you're at the party now.
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At least you're, you've been invited to the party of prosperity on planet Earth.
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So now if you want to get in the big leagues, now, now you got to start thinking about these
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Paul says, man, I want that hot chick over there.
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And he sees her and he goes up to her and she's like, nah, pass.
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You know, if I go to a restaurant and I said, hey, I want the freaking, I want the stone crabs.
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Somebody's got to have stone crabs in Miami right now, man.
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If you don't have friends, it'll tell you the truth.
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Paul, one pick-up line for you from the master closer here.
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Dude, well, the thing I would tell you is just don't drop your standards, bro.
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I mean, Jay-Z says he's got a great line in one of his songs.
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You know, there's a guy that knows how to create the life he wants, okay?
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I want a wife that every man, everybody that I have wants to f***, but they know they can't
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If somebody, if somebody, if somebody, you know, like you, you, you're like, oh, that
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You're saying more about you than you're saying about me, okay?
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And I say, and then I say, I'm the only one here that gets paid to speak.
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Dude, this chick wouldn't go out with me for 13 months, Paul.
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Now, when she said no to me, bro, all I did was call her back again.
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So, I got a friend back there, Brittany, she knows she's in trouble right now because
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she says, she's in Miami, you know, good looking girl, entrepreneur.
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She's in that number, by the way, the 125 number.
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Works hard, does great things on financial services.
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People are like, people, somebody asked Elena the other night, are you a gold digger?
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I've been, I'm digging for gold every freaking day of my life.
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If I was going out with a guy, Brittany, I'd say, hey, let me see your financials, buddy.
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I'm not going out with a guy that can't freaking bank money, can't pay his credit cards.
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How's he going to take care of your kids if he can't freaking bank?
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I'd start going to the country clubs, the charity events.
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There's nothing wrong with a woman because look, landing a guy that's rich.
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Staying with him and creating the life he wants, that's a different deal.
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I mean, I'm not saying you would dig for gold, just go for the money and not find somebody you love.
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But why would I go freaking just take leftovers?
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This, no, you're saying what most people want to talk about.
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You're saying what most people want to talk about.
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They have succumbed to a schedule and to a life rather than to create.
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If you want your marriage to work, you've got to stay in the creative part.
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Is that not an aligned message with the entire tour?
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Happiness, we talk about, is from creating, being part of a community, and having a sense of ownership.
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And that's something that being an entrepreneur does for you.
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If you don't follow Grant, here's what I suggest.
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I read it, and I start ripping on a chapter that takes like maybe 15 minutes to read, and that chapter becomes 45 minutes.
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Follow him on Twitter, YouTube, subscribe to his channel.
00:46:44.900
Grant, can you talk a little bit about Grant Cardone TV?
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Grant Cardone TV, the project I was working on, because he was telling me about it in the back.
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I want to collaborate with other entrepreneurs, people that think like you, to create a network that delivers content that is productive and conducive to expansion.
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And when you go to a break, you don't have to hear about some depression that you should be experiencing because you live on planet Earth.
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And gravity's gone from gravity to, damn, everybody's got a freaking disease now.
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So the biggest funders for mass TV today is Big Pharma.
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Big Pharma spends billions of dollars to sell trillions of dollars worth of products.
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The way they sell that product is they know they have to create a problem for you.
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So you have, they would say, yeah, you probably got some bipolar shit going on.
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Me, I got some attention deficit disorder, okay?
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We both have issues, you know, according to the...
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So 10 million kids this year are going to be freaking labeled some disease and put on a drug.
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So I want a network where we control content, push to people that's positive.
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It's an entrepreneurial channel, and that doesn't exist in the world today, believe it or not.
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Because if you go Google how to start a business, dude, just try this exercise.
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Google how to start a business, you'll be more confused in 30 minutes than you've ever been confused in your whole life.
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For those of single guys out there and single girls out there,
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And she says, and then you say, let's take a shower.
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Obviously, 13 months and they don't work, but you followed up.
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Look, if your clothes doesn't work, just follow up.
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There's been so much wisdom today with this interview.
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