Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Grant Cardone reveals the bad advice that made him stop buying real estate at the exact moment he should have been expanding.
Grant had already acquired 500 apartment units and was building momentum when someone told him to slow down because “bigger is not better.” Grant listened, stopped buying, and missed the opportunity to acquire approximately 2,000 additional units during one of the strongest real estate buying windows he had ever seen.
That mistake permanently changed how Grant evaluates advice, failure, and ambitious targets.
In this conversation with Derek Andersen, Grant explains why you should be careful taking advice from people who are trying to justify their own losses, why realistic goals can keep you trapped, and how impossible targets force you to discover opportunities you would never see while thinking small.
You are probably going to come up short either way. The question is whether you come up short chasing something small or build something massive along the way.
Chapters
00:00 Think big or fail small
00:23 The advice that stopped Grant
01:19 Never take advice from someone who just lost
02:13 The 2,000 apartments Grant missed
02:39 Buying apartments below permit cost
03:21 Go big or go bigger
03:52 Why everyone needs a massive target
04:21 Success is not a limited resource
05:40 Are your goals too realistic?
06:19 Grant has never hit a 10X target
06:38 How impossible targets create bigger results
07:58 Turning 5,000 units into a $10 billion target
08:46 Rethinking real estate and Bitcoin
09:14 Why Grant writes his goals every day
10:28 What Grant writes instead of a to-do list
11:53 Where you are is not where you’re going
12:21 How to define real success
What is the biggest goal you have been afraid to write down? Put it in the comments.
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This content is for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing in this video constitutes financial or investment advice.
#GrantCardone #10X #RealEstate
Grant Cardone reveals the bad advice that made him stop buying real estate at the exact moment he should have been expanding.
Grant had already acquired 500 apartment units and was building momentum when someone told him to slow down because “bigger is not better.” Grant listened, stopped buying, and missed the opportunity to acquire approximately 2,000 additional units during one of the strongest real estate buying windows he had ever seen.
That mistake permanently changed how Grant evaluates advice, failure, and ambitious targets.
In this conversation with Derek Andersen, Grant explains why you should be careful taking advice from people who are trying to justify their own losses, why realistic goals can keep you trapped, and how impossible targets force you to discover opportunities you would never see while thinking small.
You are probably going to come up short either way. The question is whether you come up short chasing something small or build something massive along the way.
Chapters
00:00 Think big or fail small
00:23 The advice that stopped Grant
01:19 Never take advice from someone who just lost
02:13 The 2,000 apartments Grant missed
02:39 Buying apartments below permit cost
03:21 Go big or go bigger
03:52 Why everyone needs a massive target
04:21 Success is not a limited resource
05:40 Are your goals too realistic?
06:19 Grant has never hit a 10X target
06:38 How impossible targets create bigger results
07:58 Turning 5,000 units into a $10 billion target
08:46 Rethinking real estate and Bitcoin
09:14 Why Grant writes his goals every day
10:28 What Grant writes instead of a to-do list
11:53 Where you are is not where you’re going
12:21 How to define real success
What is the biggest goal you have been afraid to write down? Put it in the comments.
Subscribe for more strategies on business, money, real estate, sales, and building a 10X life.
This content is for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing in this video constitutes financial or investment advice.
#GrantCardone #10X #RealEstate
