Be Obsessed or Be Average

by Grant Cardone

I will never apologize for wanting to get my financials stable, secure, even indestructible. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

I treat all my companies like produce stands. What do I have to exchange with the marketplace today? #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

I spend 95 percent of my time focused on getting money and 5 percent on

expenses. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

If you’re really obsessed with success you must surround yourself with others obsessed with success. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

Anything worth doing is worth doing every day. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

Your daily sales meeting reinforces who you are, what you do, what you want from your team, what you expect from them, and what you provide your customers.

If you don’t have time to celebrate your staff and their successes, then you have your priorities wrong. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

Doubt is the problem. Doubt is the most dangerous and insidious form of mental terrorism on this planet. Doubt damages people, organizations, marriages, and dreams.

Doubt is the most dangerous and insidious form of terrorism on this planet. #BeObsessed

It took me a long time to wake up to this, but eventually I realized you don’t fix problems with problems—you fix them with success.

I live by the saying “If you are the most successful person in the room, you are in the wrong room.” #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

Encourage people to see what you see, sell them on the concept, convince them it’s better, or demand that they get behind and away from you.

“I am addicted to, obsessed with, and committed to my future, regardless of my past.” Let them see that you have removed your foot from the brake and are stepping only on the accelerator. Make it clear that you will not tolerate doubt from anyone around you either, that you have no time for blame, and that you expect complete and total support to move forward with life. Doubt will be treated like an enemy.

I am obsessed with my future, regardless of my past. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

When you are clear on your purpose, you will never burn out.

The only thing that is going to ultimately renew you is getting obsessed with your purpose. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

I am not happy unless I am working. That doesn’t make me defective. It makes me productive. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

The whole concept of having balance in your life is ridiculous. I am not trying to balance my life—I am trying to blow it up.

Obsession isn’t about settling or sacrificing things that are important to you. Obsession is about having it all: health, faith, family, career, money. You don’t need to ask, What would I rather have, money or health? “Both” is the only answer.

Obsession isn’t about settling or sacrificing things that are important to you, it’s about having

it all. #BeObsessed @Gr...

The world is filled with people who have given up on their dreams and now spend their lives trying to get others to give up on theirs. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

Get out of your head and onto paper, and focus on how you can rather than how you can’t.

There are plenty of naysayers and haters. I can’t afford to be one

of them and neither can you. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

It would be one thing if critics were just evil people who meant

nothing to you. But they also include people who love and care for you. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

The best way to handle naysayers is to hit your goals over and over until they have no choice but to believe in you. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

My conclusion was that if you have great content and are giving people great information, you can post every fifteen seconds if you want.

If a prospect goes away because I push too hard, call too much, or send too many e-mails, then it’s likely they’re

not the type of person I want to do business with. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

What separates the haters from the naysayers is the intention behind their negativity. The naysayer may be someone close to you who actually wants the best for you. The haters, on the other hand, don’t want you to succeed; they want you to fail.

Haters are going to hate, while the obsessed are going to create. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

If you don’t have haters, you are not obsessed. If you don’t collect haters, you are doing nothing. If you don’t have haters, you are a threat to no one. A guaranteed indication that you are onto something and making things happens is getting and having haters.

When haters are hating, they aren’t creating. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

Haters will promote you when naysayers won’t.

Haters will promote you more than even your biggest fans. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

The real danger haters and naysayers bring is the possibility of going off track. If you do not push through all the doubts and confusion they throw at you, you will lose.

The obsessed aren’t committed to popularity, they’re committed to success. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

Use the naysayers as guides and the haters as fuel. Do not fight them, and certainly never attempt to tame your obsessions.

Success is the ultimate revenge against the haters, critics, and naysayers.

Massive success is the ultimate revenge. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

But true domination—and true obsession—starts with dominating yourself.

True domination—and true obsession—starts with dominating yourself, not others. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

Confidence is vital not only to staying on course but also to setting the course, reinforcing that course for everyone, and then making sure you win. The best way to gain confidence is to dominate your space and everything in it.

What I realized is that it is ultimately up to you to set rules for yourself. Develop the capacity to break down and analyze each area of your life so that you can dominate those that are most important to you. Turn them into vital fuel for your obsessions.

There is no domination without discipline.

Rein in the beliefs or behaviors that harm you, set you back, or distract you. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone

I don’t manage time—I create time. #BeObsessed @GrantCardone