DALLAS (AURN News) — Grant Cardone, who built a multi-billion real estate empire after battling drug addiction and homelessness, has a controversial message about success: your failures won’t make you stronger. The real estate mogul and business consultant is challenging the popular narrative that hardship builds character, offering instead a stark assessment of his own path to wealth.
“I wish I could tell you that there was some benefit to those 10 years,” Cardone told AURN News about his decade-long struggle with drug addiction. “There is nothing to be accomplished by going through 10 years of hell.”
His journey began with personal tragedy when his father died of a heart attack, leaving behind a family of six when Cardone was just 10 years old. The experience shaped his views on financial security and the dangers of middle-class complacency.
The path to homelessness began early for Cardone. By age 15, he was struggling with drug addiction, a battle that would eventually cost him everything. “I destroyed everything, the money, a little bit of money I had, the education that I was being given where I lived. I’m out on the streets. I’m literally homeless,” he recounted.
But it wasn’t the hardships that created his success, Cardone insists. “What made me who I am today is my recovery,” he emphasized. “Not just my recovery from drugs, by the way, my recovery from the middle class, my recovery from just enough.”
Cardone takes particular aim at what he calls “middle-class thinking,” challenging conventional financial wisdom that he believes keeps people trapped in mediocrity. “Most of us have it completely wrong,” he stated. “The middle class has it entirely wrong. We make just enough money to be trapped, to pay taxes and to be consumers and nothing more than that.”
In his framework for success, Cardone emphasizes three critical steps that he believes are essential for anyone seeking to build wealth. First, he stresses the importance of acknowledging current circumstances: “If you got a drug problem like I had, you gotta admit you got a problem. If you got a money problem, you gotta admit you got a problem.”
The second step involves seeking guidance beyond familiar circles: “Your circle, my circle was the circle that got me into trouble, and I’m not talking about the drug dealer. I’m talking about my family… the neighborhood I lived in.”
Finally, and perhaps most controversially, Cardone advocates for physical relocation: “You got to leave your community,” he stated, acknowledging this advice often meets resistance.
The influential global businessman takes particular issue with wealthy individuals who downplay the importance of financial success. “It’s all these rich billionaires. They’re like ‘money will not make you happy, bro’ – you’re sitting on a yacht in the Mediterranean,” he said. “You have two boats, a helicopter, and people serve you, and now you’re the one that’s going to tell me money doesn’t make you happy?”
Looking toward the future, Cardone sees unprecedented opportunities for entrepreneurship in today’s digital age. “It is easier to be an entrepreneur today, because of technology, because of access to the internet, because of conversations like we’re having right now that cost people nothing,” he noted. He particularly emphasizes real estate investment as a path to wealth, suggesting that current market conditions present unique opportunities. “The biggest correction in my lifetime is happening right now in apartments,” he revealed, adding that those who invest wisely now could see significant returns over the next 30 years.
Cardone’s passion for success is evident in his approach to life and business. “I’m addicted to success,” he declared. “I can’t get enough of it. I think it’s unbelievable.” To help others achieve similar results, he has made his latest book on wealth creation available free through his website, emphasizing his belief that financial education should be accessible to everyone seeking to improve their economic situation.
His message consistently emphasizes the importance of learning from success rather than failure. “I don’t want to learn from my failures. I want to learn from yours,” he explained. “I want to learn from other people that were successful, what path they took.” This approach, combined with his direct style and controversial views on traditional paths to success, has made him both a polarizing and influential figure in the world of business and personal development.
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