| Net Worth | $300,000,000 |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Grant Cardone |
| Date of Birth/Age | March 21, 1958 (age 61) |
| Source of wealth | Author, Sales Trainer, Real Estate Investor, Motivational Speaker |
| Height | 5'9 |
| Country of origin | U.S |
| State/City of origin | Lake Charles, Louisiana |
| Last Updated | 2019 |
Net Worth
Grant Cardone’s net worth is 300 million dollars.
His popular TV program, “Turnaround King,” is a cash cow for him. He’s made millions of dollars with the National Geographic Channel that airs the show.
Cardone invests continuously, careful to choose only the moneymakers. His multiple contributions to financial news broadcasts over the years has proffered him relevancy amongst the public. In the long run, this has equated to his success, both financially and socially.
He travels frequently, putting on seminars and establishing businesses and beneficial connections. Cardone gets paid to provide interactive training to small businesses, startups and entrepreneurs. The larger checks come in from the Fortune 500s he coaches in the area of sales.
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He allegedly has a namesake online university, but there have been some discrepancies about this. He expounded on the rumors.
“I tried improving it [his Wikipedia page], adding just factual information that was unbiased, but haters quickly came in flagging me for having a “conflict of interest.” After an edit war, a wiki hater warned me he would block me from further edits if I “vandalized” my page…by merely mentioning the fact that I created an online platform called Cardone University.”
According to Cardone, he made a noteworthy income from this endeavor.
His real estate projects gross innumerable amounts of capital and touch on a plethora of factors: equity market, amortization, depreciation, tax benefits and the like.
A bona fide author, Cardone lines his bank accounts with the royalties from his bestsellers, as well: “The 10x Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure,” “The Closer’s Survival Guide,” “Sell or Be Sold: How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life,” “The Millionaire Booklet,” “Be Obsessed or Be Average” and “How to Create Wealth Investing in Real Estate.”
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Introduction
Grant Cardone is a businessman and motivational speaker who has accomplished many feats, even on a global scale. He’s hands-on with his professional affairs and dealings. Grant Cardone reportedly texted some of his fans personally who had signed up to be a part of his conferences.
He holds many training seminars in an attempt to help others learn how to generate wealth and, of course, he racks up a fortune for himself in the process.
Grant Cardone has chosen to apply himself in every way possible in order to make it big, the way he always imagined he would back in his Summer days in Louisiana as an expectant and optimistic kid.
But, the road was neither smooth nor straight on his way to victory. Grant Cardone fell into pothole after pothole—drug after drug—and ended up stuck in a few muddy ditches—on the sidelines—strung out and hopeless.
Yet, he managed to get back on the right path and cruise to the destiny that seemed to have escaped him.
Early Life
Grant Cardone’s childhood is a solemn one, but it’s one he hasn’t been shy about sharing. In one of his bestselling books, “Be Obsessed or Be Average,” he spilled the beans on the trauma that occurred in his adolescence, citing he had to grow up much sooner than any child should have to.
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His parents, Curtis and Concetta Cardone, raised him in a middle-class neighborhood. They enjoyed the affluence that was afforded them. Without notice, his father died of a heart attack. Cardone’s whole life stopped.
He felt like the rug had been pulled from under him. Unable to cope, he rebelled as a preteen and beyond, often defying authoritative figures and medicating his wounds with drugs. Before long, he was an addict with no direction in life.
Cardone painted himself as a “troubled kid.”
His mother slipped into anxious bouts, wondering where their provision would come from; his dad had been the breadwinner.
Cardone remembered lessons his dad instilled in him before he passed away: work hard, aim for greatness and prioritize family above everything else.
Personal Life
The 60-year-old entrepreneur worked hard and achieved the American dream. He claims to carve out ample time with his family, although his schedule is quite busy.
He has a wife, Elena Lyons. Her birth name was Rosaia in lieu of Lyons.
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Lyons hails from Madrid, Spain. She’s been included in “Maxim” and other magazines and publications. Moreover, Lyons is an actress and avid gun enthusiast.
She has a thing for hot rods, her favorite being a 1965 Chevy Malibu SS, convertible. She’s taken an interest in selling off properties and estates with her husband.
Cardone and Lyons tied the knot in 2004 on Independence Day.
The two share daughters, Scarlett and Sabrina Cardone.
At some point, Lyons owned a Great Dane and parrots. Grant Cardone has at least three siblings.
He and his wife make a very cozy living.
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Career
Grant Cardone became a salesman after college. He eventually headed out to Illinois and made his abode in the “Windy City” where he embarked on a car sales career for a while.
He hated every minute of it, and he found out quickly that he enjoyed coaching others on how to sell cars instead.
A new career unfolded in front of his eyes. Cardone latched on to the whole sales instructor bid full-time.
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Coaching beget other opportunities in the sales industry.
Implementing the lessons his father taught him, he rose to the top of his game as the CEO of Freedom Motorsports Group Inc.; they sponsored NASCAR drivers; and they also endorsed Dianetics and Scientology.
Doors continued to burst open for him until he stumbled into his big break that allowed him to rub elbows with the higher ups at the National Geographic headquarters, the television division.
After extensive talks with them, they handed Cardone his own show, “Turnaround King.”
It made its debut premiere in 2011 and even now films regularly.
In it, he uses the medium of television to help companies and businesses salvage their tanking, vision-less or stalled enterprises, causing them to run smoothly again and profit.
Although Cardone is no stranger to TV—as he’s contributed to outlets like CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and Fox—his solo show, “Turnaround King,” was a whole different animal.
He’s pushing the billion-dollar mark with his real estate ventures.
Grant Cardone Doesn’t Even Have a Wiki Page
For at least a decade now, the who’s who—and even the D-listers—in Hollywood have been authenticated, for lack of better words, with an official Wikipedia page in English, but not Grant Cardone. He explained why.
“Soon thereafter, that hater — or another hater — took my photo down so now my Wiki page doesn’t even have a head shot. I’m not complaining, I’m bragging.
You know you’re on the right track when Wikipedia haters start taking neutral facts from your page and threatening to ban you from any further edits.”
He does, however, have a Wiki page written in German.
Interesting Facts
- Grant Cardone is a twin.
- He is a New York Times bestseller.
- His twin brother’s name is Gary.
- He holds a degree in accounting.
- Grant Cardone received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from McNeese State University in 2010.
- Cardone’s wife, Elena, was voted #76 on the “Maxim” Hot 100 List in 2004.
- She is from the capital city of Spain.
- The couple have a combined net worth of about $305 million.
- His favorite color is blue, and he is big on Italian food.
Favorite Quotes from Grant Cardone
“If the people around you are giving you advice to slow down or to take it easy – you are surrounded by the wrong people.”
“Fast is the new big. Perfection is the killer to production. Perfection is basically a symptom of procrastination.”
“I have been called a lot of things due to my commitment to action – a workaholic, obsessive, greedy, never satisfied, driven, and even maniac… I have never had someone who is more successful than I am considering my excessive action to be a bad thing – because successful people know firsthand what it takes to achieve this kind of success.”
“You don’t get burnout – you lose purpose! You lose your meaning. When I’m tired, I look at my purpose.”
“Don’t watch the news… make the news. You don’t read the newspaper, you write newspaper articles. You don’t read books, yeah, you read books, but learn to write them.”
“I don’t go to work to work. I hate that saying! I want you to go to work to prosper. Go to work for freedom. This is what wealthy people do different than anybody else. Wealthy people work for freedom. They’re not working for comfort items, not for a weekend, they’re working for freedom.”
“If you are flying under the radar, you’ll never launch into orbit.”
Tips for success from Grant Cardone
- “Approach every situation with an “in-it-to-win-it-whatever-it-takes” mind-set. Sound too aggressive? Sorry, but that is the outlook required to win nowadays.”
- “When I was 26 years old, I was in retail and the store I worked in closed at 7 pm; most times you could find me there at 11 pm, making an extra sale. Never try to be the smartest or luckiest person; just make sure you outwork everyone.”
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- “Commitment isn’t measured by doing the things you want to do but doing the things you don’t want to do when you don’t want to do them. This is how you get FREEDOM – sacrifice a few years for a life!”
- “The single biggest financial mistake I’ve made was not thinking big enough. I encourage you to go for more than a million. There is no shortage of money on this planet, only a shortage of people thinking big enough.”
- “You will either get what you want or you will be used by others to get what they want.”
