Use SETBACKS to BLOWUP

I am in LaJolla, California today where I brought my family to celebrate a major victory in my life this Labor Day 2015.  Tomorrow we take our companies to a whole new level with the expansion of Cardone Acquisitions. Meeting with major REITs to expand our real estate holdings from 500 units just eight years ago to 10,000 units.

Some eight years ago I got entangled with a couple of criminals in LaJolla, California, we will refer to them as RG and RC, their real initials. They targeted me to become partners in their real estate ventures, which on the surface seemed to be very successful. They told me their company was being looked at by Fortune 100 companies, valued in the 100's of millions and they sought me out as the perfect partner to take them to the next level.

As I did my due diligence on the company, these guys talked about expansion, private jets and how I was the 10X game changer. It didn't take me long to discover that the company was broke, both the partners were broke and they had been defrauding banks to keep the company afloat.

At this point I pulled from pursuing the partnership. When I did they grabbed a local attorney and created a bogus $60 million law suit trying to extort whatever money they could from the only guy that had money. The suit cost me millions of dollars to defend and even more agony just trying to make sense of how someone could do this. 

One day I finally had the cognition that the only way to get even with these guys was to blow up my success to a new level. Eight years ago, right here in LaJolla, California, I told my wife, "I'm going to blow up so big that these two guys, RG & RC will have to wake up every day and see my face."  

This event inspired me to write five books, build my own TV network, and build out a real estate company worth more than what they thought they dreamed their bogus company would ever be worth.  

Never waste a setback to blow up. All negative experiences have energy in them that can be used to raise you to new levels. When your problems are bigger than your goals the issue is your goals are not big enough. Get so successful that the critics, the haters, and the scammers have to wake up and see your face everywhere they turn.

Thanks, Ralph, Rob and your scumbag lawyers. You guys inspired me to new levels and you were right when you said I was a 10X game changer.

Grant Cardone

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