Be Obsessed or Be Average Quotes

“GET BEYOND THE ONE-MAN SHOW Great organizations are never one-man operations. There are 22 million licensed small businesses in America that have no employees. Forbes suggests 75 percent of all businesses operate with one person. And the average income of those companies is a sad $44,000. That’s not a business—that’s torture. That is a prison where you are both the warden and the prisoner. What makes a person start a business and then be the only person who works there? Are they committed to staying small? Or maybe an entrepreneur decides that because the talent pool is so poor, they can’t hire anyone who can do it as well as them, and they give up. My guess is the latter: Most people have just given up and said, “It’s easier if I just do it myself.” I know, because that’s what I did—and it was suicidal. Because my business was totally dependent on me and only me, I was barely able to survive, much less grow, for the first ten years. Instead I contracted another company to promote my seminars. When I hired just one person to assist me out of my home office, I thought I was so smart: Keep it small. Keep expenses low. Run a tight ship. Bigger isn’t always better. These were the things I told myself to justify not growing my business. I did this for years and even bragged about how well I was doing on my own. Then I started a second company with a partner, a consulting business that ran parallel to my seminar business. This consulting business quickly grew bigger than my first business because my partner hired people to work for us. But even then I resisted bringing other people into the company because I had this idea that I didn’t want the headaches and costs that come with managing people. My margins were monster when I had no employees, but I could never grow my revenue line without killing myself, and I have since learned that is where all my attention and effort should have gone. But with the efforts of one person and one contracted marketing company, I could expand only so much. I know that a lot of speakers and business gurus run their companies as one-man shows. Which means that while they are giving advice to others about how to grow a business, they may have never grown one themselves! Their one-man show is simply a guy or gal going out, collecting a fee, selling time and a few books. And when they are out speaking, the business terminates all activity. I started studying other people and companies that had made it big and discovered they all had lots of employees. The reality is you cannot have a great business if it’s just you. You need to add other people. If you don’t believe me, try to name one truly great business that is successful, ongoing, viable, and growing that doesn’t have many people making it happen. Good luck. Businesses are made of people, not just machines, automations, and technology. You need people around you to implement programs, to add passion to the technology, to serve customers, and ultimately to get you where you want to go. Consider the behemoth online company Amazon: It has more than 220,000 employees. Apple has more than 100,000; Microsoft has around the same number. Ernst & Young has more than 200,000 people. Apple calls the employees working in its stores “Geniuses.” Don’t you want to hire employees deserving of that title too? Think of how powerful they could make your business.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“When I started studying other obsessive types who were super successful and stopped seeking advice from those who were settling for average lives, average results, average money, average everything and who were never obsessed with anything except defending average, that’s when I began to really live.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“I believe I know best in everything I do, and if I don’t, I get trained until I have complete confidence and competence in whatever I am doing. Whether it’s making a sales call, handling my four-year-old, or operating a firearm, I want control over all my various skill sets so that I can lead in all the different areas of my life. I don’t need to be the smartest person in the room—I don’t even need to be right—but I do need to be willing to control things.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“It’s a bad idea to ignore your ambitions, your energy, your obsession, but it’s even worse to let them take their own course. They can be like wild horses, running full speed in every direction, wasting energy and resources with lots of effort that produces nothing.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“There’s a popular saying that you are the composite of the five people you spend the most time with. Look around: If the people you see aren’t screaming success, they are validating average.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“I have always secretly believed I was capable of doing unbelievable things.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“I know “leader” sounds more inspiring and that the business world wants to talk about leadership—but when thing go wrong, I don’t care about leadership; I want control, or at least to know someone is in control. I want answers, I want to solve problems quickly, and know I have the ability to deliver solutions and get the scene back under control.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“be careful about whom you spend your time with. The people in your life are either a good influence or a bad influence. There is no gray area. If you don’t know what side they are on, you should not spend time with them. I won’t and don’t. Fill your time up with the ones who are supportive.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“You are a threat to all things average. You remind the average that they have settled! I can’t tell you how many times I’ve told someone I’m writing a book and their response is “You know, it’s a lot of work to write a book” or “People don’t read books anymore” or “Did you know that most books never get published?” This is the voice of the naysayer who needs to make sense of not doing, who needs to defend their right to be average. They’ve never written that book they’ve always wanted to write! It doesn’t matter whether their intention is to help you or hurt you. If you listen to them, the result is the same: They will deter you and add doubt and confusion to your already-challenging goals, making a difficult activity a thousand times more difficult.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“Unsolicited advice givers are people who know about everything but have never done anything.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“I was having a medical checkup recently, and as the doctor started to check my blood pressure, she launched into a lecture: “You know, people like you tend to be under a lot of stress. You really should . . .” But I had already quit listening to her. I have had heard this so many times from so many people. People are always telling me how stressful my life must be who, in truth, have no clue whether I am experiencing stress or not. I’m not experiencing stress; I’m loving my life. I love and crave all the activity and all the crazy new challenges. What these professional worriers are really saying is that they think they would get stressed out if they were doing all that I do. They’re saying more about themselves than about me. I’ll tell you, that doctor was the one who looked stressed, tired, beat up, and hammered.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“The obsessed are the industry builders, disrupters, titans, game changers, and living legends others admire and wish to emulate. The obsessed don’t just make the world go around. They make the world worth living in.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average

“While I sat at lunch in total defeat, I thought to myself, I just need a sign. Something to tell me: Either quit or go on. And if I go on, where do I go next? I need a clear sign of what to do. I don’t even know whom I was addressing. Was I praying? Begging? Or just talking to myself? I still don’t know. I do know that I was in total doubt and at a very low point in my life. I was so lost that I was starting to look to horoscopes for direction and guidance that might determine my future. When you start depending on horoscopes, you know you are in trouble.”
― Grant Cardone, Be Obsessed or Be Average