His mother couldn't even recognize him when he went to meet his mother after the incident. His then-girlfriend admitted him to the hospital for three days, and he got 70 stitches on his head.

He was beaten black and blue and was left to die at the front door. When he was 23 years old, one of his friends got him robbed.

He continued doing drugs and lived in a small apartment in Lake Charles Louisiana, with his dog Capo. He was displeased with the work and was not good at it. He also graduated as an accounting major from McNeese State University alongside becoming a debtor of 40,000 dollars that he got as a student loan. He eventually went into the wrong hands, drinking and using drugs yet maintaining grades to stay in the college. Just because his mother had promised his father to send all their children to college, Grant went to college. Still, I felt an overwhelming sense of powerlessness, knowing I couldn’t do anything about anything at the time,” he recalls the incident,Īs a high school student, Grant has always been a troublesome and opinionated boy, and so he used to be kicked out of school. She was furious, disappointed, and frustrated. “My mother had that look on her face that every parent gets when a kid crosses the line. While facing the money issue, Grant once said to his mother that he would become rich, ‘grow out of the middle-class segregation’, which his mother used to label their lifestyle. The sudden slide of the family's economy broke Grant. As he was the breadwinner of the family his mother had to sell their lakefront house and moved to the city for their future with the money she had. His father, a licensed stockbroker, was making significant money until he died at 42 when Grant was just 10-years-old. He had four siblings, including his twin brother Gary. His parents were children of Italian Immigrants to America in the early 1900s. Grant Cardone was born on March 21, 1958, in Louisiana, USA, to father Cutis Louis Cardone and Concetta Neil Cardone. 1 marketer to watch by Forbes in 2017, Grant has been chosen as one among the Forbes 25 Marketing Influencers of 2017. His companies generate more than 100 million dollars annually. He owns and operates seven multi-million dollar companies and a 1.4B dollars portfolio of multifamily properties.

He is also the mastermind of the Grant Cardone Sales Training University, an online business training platform. Who is Grant Cardone?Īs an author of numerous motivational books, Grant Cardone is renowned for his motivational speaking sessions on real-estate investing, leadership, entrepreneurship, social media, and finance. Grant Cardone is an American motivational speaker, author, entrepreneur, real estate investor, CEO of CardoneCapital, and the founder of the 10X movement.

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