Grant Cardone

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Success is your duty, obligation and responsibility

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

You can't hate and ball at the same time

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

Never lower your target ; increase your actions.

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

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

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

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

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.

Rich people invest money and poor people spend it.

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.

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.

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