The Cardone Zone

Grant Cardone offers insights and advice to help the middle class break out and achieve true freedom in business, career and finance. Each week NY Times best selling author, self made multimillionaire entrepreneur and international sales expert Grant Cardone focuses on matters affecting the middle class. Whether it's jobs and careers, finance, entrepreneurship, Grant's real, raw in-your-face delivery serves as a wake up call for anyone ok with just being comfortable. The Cardone Zone is like no other business show presently on air. After one viewing you'll be inspired to make success your duty, responsibility and obligation as you break free of the middle class and break into true freedom.

Grant Cardone and Jarrod Glandt bring you the tools you need to succeed in the 21st Century. Plenty of you want true freedom, prefer entrepreneurship to 9-to-5 and are hungry for a mentor who gives you the raw and real deal. Grant doesn't care what your age is, he knows you're a Young Hustler. Every Thursday at 12 PM Grant and Jarrod bring you sales, business and success tips and insights to succeed in any economic climate. How to Ripoff the IRS: 1. Every person should be taking 9 exemptions. 2. You DO NOT want refunds. Don't overpay the IRS. 3. You need to know the law for expenses. 4. Write off anything and everything you can legally. "To play the tax game, you need cash flow." – GC

How do you start your day? Do you have a routine? When you think of the word ritual, do you picture a bunch of guys wearing hoodies starting a fire out in the woods? A ritual is really just a sequence of activities. Grant doesn't do a ritual every day because he's not perfect, but he is good and wins most of the time. He's happier, has more confidence, and gets more energy when he does his ritual. 1. Wake up and beat the sun—Why way until the neighborhood is already up when you can be the first one? 2. Write your goals down—Journal your future, don't report your past. You can only write about your mommy and daddy so many times. Your attention needs to be on the future. 3. Urinate 4. Workout—This will give you energy for the rest of the day. 5. Shower 6. Read 7. Eat 8. Listen to music while driving to work that pumps you up. You don't have to have this same exact routine but do something that fits you. Don't wait until you get to work to get your day started. You should know your targets for the day before you get to the office. In a crazy world you can bring normality, prediction, and control by having a ritual. You need to deliver every day and bring it—and having a daily ritual will help you fill your calendar and be more productive.

Are you burned out? Grant gets asked, "how do you do all this stuff you do?" and "how do you balance it all?" First off you don't want balance. Burning out is a reduction of fuel or substance. You are not a candle so you can't burn out. When the things you do no longer fulfill you, you might start to feel burned out. You need a reason. 1. Understand the definition of burnout. A rocket runs out of fuel so it stops ascending to its target. You have fuel too. The body needs food—fuel. But what do you need? What you need is purpose. 2. Find more purpose. Purpose is fuel that can keep you ascending. Your purpose can sustain you. The truth is you need to be obsessed or be burned out. The average burn out because average doesn't get you excited. Are obsessed or average?

Grant Cardone fought a category 4 Hurricane and is back in the studio talking about how budgets don't work. Was a hurricane in your budget this year? Most people don't have an emergency budget but you need one, yet the only way to make a budget work is to out produce it. You can't predict everything that is going to happen. Budgets keep little people little and scared people scared. Quit starting conversations about saving money and start moving the ball downfield and think income. Budgets don't work because: 1. They cause you to contract. 2. You can't predict everything in a budget. Grant uses the 95/5 rule. Spend 95% of your time on income and 5% on expenses. Control yourself if you have to but your problem is not enough money coming in. Why will people override the budget when there is an emergency, but won't spend when there is a great idea that will cost money and take things over budget? Break your budget to expand!

Grant Cardone and Jarrod Glandt bring you the tools you need to succeed in the 21st Century. Plenty of you want true freedom, prefer entrepreneurship to 9-to-5 and are hungry for a mentor who gives you the raw and real deal. Grant doesn't care what your age is, he knows you're a Young Hustler. Every Thursday at 12 PM Grant and Jarrod bring you sales, business and success tips and insights to succeed in any economic climate. How to Ripoff the IRS: 1. Every person should be taking 9 exemptions. 2. You DO NOT want refunds. Don't overpay the IRS. 3. You need to know the law for expenses. 4. Write off anything and everything you can legally. "To play the tax game, you need cash flow." – GC

There is a direct relationship between time and money—they are connected. What do they have in common? If you want more money, you really want more time. Speed is the new big. You need to either go half as far or twice as fast. If you could have more of time or money, which of them would you choose? Time is money. Time is distance / speed, so if you want to get rich you have to do more with your time or buy other people's time. Grant is in a hurry. When you slow down you become less valuable. Grant is in a hurry. When you slow down you become less valuable. Plant more crops each day and you'll have a bigger harvest. Here are 3 tips today: 1.Decide to control time. 2.Make Priorities. 3.Multiply time. The same 3 problems exist with time and money. People don't know how to make it, keep it, or multiply it. It's the same 3 problems.

Today on the Cardone Zone Grant explains how if you make 100K a year you are a rich poor person. The problem is nobody is going to feel sorry for you. If you make $14,000 a year people will feel sorry for you, but if you make $100,000 nobody cares—but both scenarios are broke. There's no money left over. Financial planners always ask you about your savings but they never ask you about your income plan. It's all backward. You need more income. What keeps you from money? 1.Your commitment. If you are committed to 50K you will come up short. Make a commitment to big money. If you don't make more than 100K a year you have nothing to save. 2.Who's Got Your Money? Who's got money around you, what do they need, and what objections do they have? You have to learn to sell and get money from people. 3.You don't know what to do with it once you get it. Few people know when to invest or what to invest in. What's keeping you from money? Is it your commitment, the fact that you don't know where to get money, or that you blow it all once you get it?

Dollars aren't tied to gold. Your money is dying—it's going down in value each day. That's why you need to get as much money as you can as fast as you can so you can put it into assets that will blow up. Money that just stays money will die. The problem is that you are being educated by people who are teaching you things from a bygone era. Middle class wages are flat and they won't be going up again. You must simplify this. If it doesn't produce income, don't do it. When interest rates go down, debts go down, and assets go up. It's all artificial. Your money is going down in value. Get rid of it and put it into assets, but wait until you have $100K saved. You need to first understand basic economics—you want it, they have it, go and ask for it. In 1960 the minimum wage was $1.60. That was worth $2 more than minimum wage is worth today even though the dollar amount is higher.

Get insane with money. Grant was labeled when he was younger as problematic, but he just didn't have attention on the right things. You need to have your attention on money. We live on an economic planet. Try going 24 hours without thinking about or using money. It's impossible. Everything you do costs money. A bag of food at Whole Foods costs $80. You have to fund your activities. If you don't get maniacal with your money, you won't have money. Create the economy you deserve. The word economy originally came from the management of a household. You have to have money to take care of those you love. If you have a shortage, start paying attention to it. For those who don't like maniacs, they say things like "Slow down", "don't toot your own horn", "take it easy"—these are all sayings from people who are against maniacs and don't have money. You need to be a maniac, and that requires you to get obsessed.