Top 55 Quotes & Sayings by Grant Cardone

You will never be admired without being criticized first.

Never lower your price, add value.

Money is like a jealous lover. Ignore it and it will ignore you, or worse, it will leave you for someone who makes it a priority.

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.

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.

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.

Make time, not excuses.

You can't get anywhere flying under the radar.

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

Do what others refuse to do.

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.

The economy is not the problem, how people respond is the problem!

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.

Success tends to bless those who are most committed to giving it the most attention.

Get a millionaire mentor. Most of us were brought up middle class or poor and then hold ourselves to the limits and ideas of that group. I have been studying millionaires to duplicate what they did. Get your own personal millionaire mentor and study them. Most rich people are extremely generous with their knowledge and their resources.

Fear depends on time for it's strength! Confront that which you fear with speed.

Never depend on one action.

Some people claim that expectations are the reason for unhappiness. However, I can assure you from personal experience that you’ll suffer greatly by setting subpar targets.

Success is the difference between where you are and where you could be

You can't hate and ball at the same time

Almost every problem people face in their careers and other aspects of their lives - such as failed diets, marriages, and financial problems - are all the result of not taking enough action.

Just Remember: The people that say, "your dreams are impossible " have already quit on theirs.

Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays and you shouldn’t either. Money loves people that have great work ethic.

Never lower your target ; increase your actions.

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.

Obscurity is a bigger problem than money.

Don't go to work to work, go to work to prosper.

No matter how exceptional your product, you won't benefit financially if you can't sell it.

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.

Rich people invest money and poor people spend it.

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

Massive success is the best revenge.

Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility

Quit sharing bad news and gossip you aren't a garbage truck.

Companies that only focus on expense reduction are all but dead as they will find themselves sooner or later unable to reduce anymore.

Think about it: What's the worst thing that can happen to you if you just totally go for it?

Building trust is key to discovering and understanding your buyers' motives.

You can't reach your potential without haters.

No economy, no matter how bad, can hold down a goal that is followed by enough action.

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!

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.

Criticism precedes admiration and – like it or not – goes hand in hand with success. Keep pouring on the success, and sooner or later, the very same people who were putting you down will be admiring you for what you have done.

Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.

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

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.

The average call me obsessed, the successful call me for advice.

Don't just make money, make a difference.

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.

Never reduce a target. Instead, increase actions!

Have goals so big your problems pale in comparison.

Most opportunities are disguised as problems.

Most people only work enough so that it feels like work, whereas successful people work at a pace that gets such satisfying results that work is a reward. Truly successful people don’t even call it work; for them, it’s a passion. Why? Because they do enough to win!

I'm going to do anything and everything, remove every boulder, every hurdle and every problem out of my way to make my dreams come true.

Your family is depending on you. No better reason to bring all your game all the time.

Avoid debt that doesn’t pay you. Make it a rule that you never use debt that won’t make you money. I borrowed money for a car only because I knew it could increase my income. Rich people use debt to leverage investments and grow cash flows. Poor people use debt to buy things that make rich people richer.