Grant Cardone

You know, I got a piece of paper.

I'm like, why would I go sideways and convert to another piece of paper?

I want to convert to something better than paper.

I've always been like this.

I've been doing this 37 years.

Get a piece of paper for somebody, take paper, convert to something better.

And in the beginning, it had to cash flow.

If it didn't cash flow, I wouldn't do it because I needed a second drip because I didn't think I would last this long.

I was 30 years old selling shit.

And I'm like, there's no way people are going to keep buying shit from me.

Like, how many times can I do this before people are like, no, we're not going to buy anything from you again.

But I grew up poor.

So I grew up in a, you know, raised by a single mom.

And, you know, you're just waiting for the wheels to fall off all the time.

Like my dad died when I was 10.

My older brother died when I was 20.

And I'm just, when you're brought up and you have this,

these losses, then you're like, the wheels are going to fall off again.

You know, I was brought up by a woman that was raised during the 1920s.

So she had this 1932 depression mentality, food lines, the whole deal.