15 things you didn't know about grant Cardone.

 

15 things you didn't know about grant Cardone.

 

 Welcome to billionaire mindset . The place where future billionaires come to get inspired. Hello, future billionaire , and welcome to another exciting original blog presented by  billionaire mindset  today. We're revealing some interesting and surprising facts about grant Cardone and incredibly successful entrepreneur real estate.

 

And. Best-selling author consultant, sales trainer, and motivational speaker grant was born March 21st, 1958 in lake Charles Louisiana. He received an accounting degree from McNeese state university in 1981. After college sales became his obsession and he became a very successful car salesman. He also started investing heavily in real estate.

 

He began compiling his sales strategies into books like sell to survive and the closers survival. Which helped him to become an in demand consultant and sales coach. He is possibly best known for his book. The 10 times rule, which was published in 2011, he now owns four companies that bring in almost $100 million in annual sales.

 

Not to mention the hundreds of millions he owns in real estate. He's considered by many to be one of the top sales training and social media experts in the world. If you're a new here, welcome, be sure to subscribe and follow us on Instagram at. Grants, bold attitude, extreme passion, incredible financial success and confidence are a source of inspiration.

 

So let's find out more about the man behind the success story. With the 15 things you didn't know about grant Cardone.

 

Number one, he quit drugs and alcohol. After being thrown out by his mother grant says it was difficult going through his teenage years without the direction of a father since his died, when he was only 10.

 

In his late teens, he turned to drugs and alcohol, which made it difficult for him to complete college and hold a job. When he was 25, he went to visit his mother, but she threw him out of the house and told him not to come back until he was sober. He says, this was the wake-up call for him. And he ended up quitting drugs and drinking cold Turkey.

 

He threw himself into a sales job to distract him. And for the first time he felt what it was like to be succinct.

 Number two, it took over a year to convince his future wife to go out on a date with him. Grant is married to Spanish actress, Elena lions, but it took him 13 months to convince her to even go out on a date with him.

 

Grant says it was love at first sight for him, but Elena refused to go out with him or even return his phone calls for months. Grant approached the goal of marrying her with his sales mentality and he calls the Elena the toughest sale he's ever. He called her monthly for an entire year and left her messages, but she didn't return his calls.

 

A mutual friend told him that Elena thought he was too short and not her type. Also she didn't date businessmen grant refused to give up. He finally got her to call him back. When he found out that her main passion was clay shooting. He rented out a shooting range, hire the best coach in LA and left her a message, inviting her to join him for a day.

 

She called him back. 60 seconds later, they went on their first date at the shooting range and were married less than a year later.

 Number three, he is a member of the church of Scientology grant is a high ranking Scientologists, and he reportedly is one of their highest donors. In 2013, he and his wife were given a platinum Merits award for donating at least $2.5 million to the international association of scientists.

 

Number four, he drives a rolls Royce Wraith grant has said that one of the stupidest things you can do when you first start making money is to buy a luxurious car. His advice is to wait until you're wealthy enough that you can afford to make dumb purchases. And it won't matter. He considers his rolls Royce Wraith, a ridiculous car that costs a ridiculous amount of money, but he says he's at a point in his life where it doesn't matter if he drops hundreds of thousands of dollars on things.

 

He decided to lease the car because in his words, buying a car is dumb, but if he had decided to buy it, it would have cost him $384,000.

 

Number five, tickets to his 20 18, 10 times growth conference costs up to $15,000. Grants annual 10 times growth conference is a three-day seminar that helps put entrepreneurs on the path to success with a focus on sales, marketing, and social media.

 

If you're willing to part with $15,000 for the premier package, you can get a seat in the first four rows. Get tickets to VIP events, attend a daily VIP lunch, have access to the VIP event area and receive an event. If you would prefer to sit in the so-called cheap seats without any of the special treatment tickets are available for $795.

 

This is the second year of the conference and it will be held in Las Vegas in March of 2018.

 

Number six, he is donating 100% of the proceeds of be obsessed or be average. In 2017 grant announced that 100% of the profits he received from his new book be obsessed or be average will be donated to the charities of drug-free America and drug-free world, which bring about awareness of the epidemic. Spread of prescription drugging of children, young adults and seniors. The book goes on sale October, 2017.

 

Number seven, he has a twin. Grant has an identical twin brother named Gary who is also very successful as the CEO of chargebacks 9 1 1 a company that helps businesses identify areas of unnecessary revenue loss.

 

Number eight, Cardone holds a $500 million real estate portfolio. His favorite thing to invest in is real estate, primarily rental. He currently rents out over 4,000 apartments and has a real estate portfolio that is valued at around $500 million. He invests through his company, Cardone acquisitions, and he has never had to raise external capital.

 

He started buying real estate as a side business to help preserve the wealth he made from his sales consulting company. But it has now become his primary source of income.

Number nine, Napoleon Hill's think and grow rich is his number one. Cardona has written seven sales and business books to date, but he also likes to read books written by other successful people.

 

The number one book he recommends to people who are focused on financial success is Napoleon Hill's think and grow rich.

 Number 10, he spent $20 million on a private jet. He calls 10 times airlines Cardone bought a $20 million Gulf stream. 200 in 2015. He says he did not buy the jet. But so he could take time out of the equation. And instead of wasting time going through security, waiting for delayed flights or waiting for a flight on someone else's schedule his jet gives him control over his own time and money.

 

 

 

Number 11, consistency is very important to him. Grant considers consistency to be a key factor in his. One way he likes to be consistent. It's in his morning routine, he wakes up, works out, eats a healthy breakfast, and then heads to work. As grant says, the more consistency you can have in your life, the more productive you'll be. One of his pieces of advice is don't just wing it.

 

 Number 12, he considers many successful people to be his mentors when asked about his mentors grant says that he's had many, but not in the traditional sense of. He says to him, mentoring doesn't mean he meets with someone in person over coffee. Instead he is most often mentored by reading someone's book. He considers Warren Buffett, mark Cuban and Napoleon hill to be his mentors among many others.

 Number 13, after his first house purchase, he vowed never to invest in single family, real estate ever again at the age of 29 grant bought a single family home in Houston. Yes, initially, he was happy with his investment until the family.

 

He was renting to moved out. He thought it was a great hassle trying to find tenants. And didn't like that it distracted him from his primary business. He decided to sell the house and he swore he would never purchase a single family, residential real estate property as an investment ever again.

 

 Number 14, some of his former employees have filed complaints about being fired after refusing to go to Scientology. In 2016, they were at least three complaints filed with the federal equal employment opportunity commission. On behalf of former employees of Cardone Miami beach business. Each filer made a discrimination claim after being fired, allegedly because they refuse to attend the company's mandatory L Ron Hubbard training.

 

They felt grand was forcing Scientology on them and they were fired without proper. Cause when they declined to take part in the. Although no further legal action has been taken yet. The company may face a lawsuit in the near future.

Number 15, he lives in a $35 million condo in Miami grant lives with his wife and two daughters and a $35 million penthouse condo located on the 33rd floor of the regalia condo property near golden beach in Miami. The condo features a 360 degree wraparound terrace with unobstructed views of the Atlantic ocean and the Miami Scott. Residents of regalia enjoy 24 hour personalized service, a champagne bar wine cellar fitness center, yoga room, spa Playhouse pool cabanas, and the beach club. Now that you've learned more about grant Cardone, we'd like to know, is he among the people you look to for advice on success?

 

Let us know in the comments still here. Here's a bonus fact, just to thank you for sticking. Grant has been hired by a number of fortune 500 companies to help them improve their sales process and social media approach. These companies include Google GM, Aflac sprint Toyota and Ford. Thank you for spending some time with us, a luck SIRS, make sure to like and subscribe.

 

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