Leadership is influencing others to the action of performing
tasks that fulfill goals. It has also been defined as making a
way for people to work together to make something amazing happen.
There are people, and then there are leaders. When
I was invited to the birthday party years back of a man named
Grant Cardone, I expected some fun, but I did not expect to be
repeating years later that it was ‘the best party I have
ever been to in my life.’ Even the paparazzi there, who are
like me, not easily impressed, would rave to me over a year later
the same sentiment, that it was ‘the best party they had
ever attended.’
While movie stars including Juliette Lewis and others mingled
freely with the other thousand or so of the rich, famous, and
beautiful, with magnetic power and massive force of will at every
turn, it was one man, the host, Grant Cardone, who possessed the
greatest power and magic of them all. His existence is like the
force of a hundred men, not mere men, but a hundred super
successful men, all rolled in to one. He is one of the few in
society who don't think small, he thinks massively big. And if he
sees a problem with something, he doesn't go with the flow, he
changes the flow. The force of Grant Cardone defines leadership
to its core, in its highest, greatest form. His energy is
massive, his charm, legendary, and his motivation of positive,
successful thinking, matched by few I have ever known. Starting
from modest beginnings, Grant Cardone is now the founder and
owner of three multi-million dollar companies, a successful
software company, a sales training and consulting business, and a
real estate company with a portfolio valued at over 100 million
dollars. As if all that were not enough, he is now a successful
author, and public speaker, lecturing around the world to
industry leaders, managers, CEOs and entrepreneurs, on sales,
money, finance, business strategies and business expansion.
After working for others for a time in the auto industry, he
later quit, turned around, and sold his former bosses
the innovative Epencil™ software-negotiating program he
created to make their businesses more successful. The program is
now utilized by most dealerships nationwide. As a real estate
investor, Mr. Cardone started with one home and parlayed it into
apartments, shopping centers and development opportunities with
over $200 million dollars bought and sold. His own home in which
he currently resides in Los Angeles, along with his wife, the
beautiful and talented actress Elena Lyons, is a 17 million
dollar mansion in the Hollywood Hills, once owned by Lionel
Ritchie. He is the author of the book 'Sell to Survive,' which
stresses the importance of selling for any career. Sell To
Survive is rapidly becoming a survival manual for business
executives, sales representatives, entrepreneurs and small
business owners. It is the definitive book on how to survive in
any economy.
One of the few voices who reject the constant negative media
drumbeat about the economy and in particular, the state of the
national housing market, Grant Cardone offers his expertise on a
number of current issues. With his solution oriented, no nonsense
formulas, he has led thousands of individuals to succeed where
before they had failed. With his proven business acumen,
approachable persona, and growing list of financial achievements,
Mr. Cardone has established himself as one of the leading opinion
makers on finance and economic issues in the world. He is
featured regularly on network news channels and sites reaching
millions. His humor, wit, charm, and power of success, truly make
him a leader of our time, to help bring the world out of its
self-inflicted despair, to a place of hope, vision, and victory.
If any man is truly worthy of the title ‘star,’ or
leader of our times in Hollywood, and the world, it is Grant
Cardone. We are pleased to give you here, an exclusive interview
with the man that other financial experts are calling ‘The
entrepreneur for the 21st Century,’ Mr. Grant
Cardone.
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