Grant Cardone defines leadership to its core, in its highest,
greatest form. His massive energy, charm, and motivation of
positive, successful thinking, are matched by few. Starting from
modest beginnings, Grant Cardone, who is also an inventor, is now
the founder and owner of three multi-million dollar companies, a
successful software company, a sales training and consulting
business, and a real estate company with a portfolio worth over
100 million dollars.
As if all that were not enough, Grant Cardone is now a successful
author, and public speaker, lecturing around the world to
industry leaders, managers, CEOs and entrepreneurs, on sales,
money, finance, business strategies, and business expansion. If
you have not yet read our first and second part of our interview
with Grant, go here now first to do so at PART ONE and PART
TWO.
Grant Cardone's work has had a profound influence on some of the
most successful companies and artists of our time. We are pleased
to give you here, Part Three of the exclusive interview with this
legendary man that other top financial experts are calling
‘The entrepreneur for the 21st Century,’ Mr. Grant
Cardone.
By Bruce Edwin
Bruce Edwin: Aside from having positive people
around you, Is there a ritual you kind of go through, where your
mood shifts, to stay positive and get motivated? What would your
advice be to people for that?
Grant Cardone: My advice for people that want to
stay motivated, is over commit to everything they do! The trick
that I use, because people are always like, 'Oh man! You're
always so positive!' You know, first of all, I said to this
person, you know, you've only spent like maybe thirty minutes
with me in the last two years. You don't know if I'm always
motivated or not... but what you see is that I am over-committed
rather than motivated.
Bruce Edwin: Sure...
Grant Cardone: But, if you see that I am always
motivated, the reason you see that is because I over commit to
every thing. This morning I wake up, I’ve got a meeting at
7, I've got one at 8, I've got one at 9, I've got one at 10,
O.K.? Oh, I have this thing at 10:30 I promised to do. I
don’t really have time not to be in engaged in whatever
game I am playing. I think most people aren't motivated, because
they just have too much free time on their hands.
You know, I had too much time to play Asteroids as a kid. You
know, me and my brother were bored and every time I was bored,
I'd get in trouble. Look at kids today in the inner cities- they
get in trouble when they're bored! Keep em' busy, you don't need
to buy em' gifts, you know, they just want to draw, they want to
scribble, they want to take a piece of paper, you know,
I’ve got a four month old right now, and I give her a piece
of paper, and you'd think that I gave her some million dollar
Tiffany gift. She fully commits to the piece of paper and when
doing so there is nothing that can bother her. She becomes
absorbed with it. This is what people are missing. To keep myself
positive I figure out, how to stay busy? People aren't busy
enough! How can you stay motivated when you're watching Anderson
Cooper?
Bruce Edwin: (Laughs)
Grant Cardone: Or Fox TV? Or CNBC? You can watch
the left or the right. There is no motivation there, you're
becoming a zombie. And so one of the things that I do, is I
curtail the amount of negative inflow that I receive, so when we
watch T.V., we'll watch the creative channel. Or I'll watch a
movie that I'm in control of, or if I'm watching the news, I'll
Ti-Vo it, so I can blow through any thing I don't want to
see.
Bruce Edwin: That's great. Yeah, that makes
sense. That kind of leads me to my other question here. What
about people that are at such a level of lack of motivation, that
they are so down and out, that they are homeless? Homelessness is
a big problem for example as you know in Los Angeles, especially
in downtown L.A. What is your advice for that?
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