Slowing Down Cost Me 2,000 Apartments
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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What opportunity have you missed because somebody told you to slow down?
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I’ve officially made $1M the real flex isn’t making money… it’s building generational wealth. Anybody can get rich for a moment. The hard part is teaching your family how to keep it, grow it, and pass the mindset down for generations.
Wealth without wisdom disappears fast.
I’m 37 and have been looking for ways to be successful, please how??
the investment-advisor that guides me is..
Cathie wood
This woman has really set the standard for others to follow, we love her here in the United States as she has been really helpful and changed lots of life’s
Big thanks to Cathie wood ~really appreciate her. Her. honestly one of the smartest and most supportive mentor I’ve ever learned from her mindset and the way she explains things really helped me alot.
Beautiful conversation
Learned a lot❤
because by 2000 units not make money better to slow down.
To watch the disposition he speaks about here. It is depressing to watch such blatant injustice and unfair treatment even when it is not about oneself. I am so glad that I can just flip by it and not watch it. Imagine to have to sit through it? I don’t know how he does it. I admire his strength. I despise the two lawyers. They are sneaky rats. You have to be able to recognize a rat.
Took one guy’s bad advice to ‘slow down’ in the 90s 00:45 and it cost him 2,000 apartments. Moral of the story guard your environment at all costs!
Grand Cardone is retiring? Can’t imagine you’re going through hard times considering you are probably bringing home more in a month than the majority of lower/lower middle class will make in a 60 year career.
I do have a question. For someone with less than $100,000 to invest, How would you recommend we enter the market! I’m looking to study some traders and copy their strategy rather than investing myself and losing money emotionally. What’s your take on this approach???
Getting a financial advisor at a brokerage will do, bc it means professional investment management, trading services, weekly reports, and no extra fees. Not for beginners alone-but it saves you from YouTubers nonsense and daily hopium
I’d recommend Melisa Mae Lloyd since she always gives market analysis and tips that are really helpful.
Big thanks to Melisa Mae Lloyd ~ really appreciate her. she’s honestly one of the smartest and most supportive mentor I’ve ever learned from. Her mindset and the way she explains things really helped me a lot
Yeah, financial advisors could make a lot of difference, particularly in a market such as this. Stocks are pretty unstable at the moment, but if you do the right math, you should be just fine. Bloomberg and other finance media have been recording cases of folks gaining over 950k just in a matter of weeks/couple months, so I think there are a lot of transfer in this downtime if you know where to look. I have been using an FA since 2019, and I return at least $321k ROI, and this does not include capital gain.
You’re spot on. I actually made the switch to a momentum-heavy strategy a couple of years back after my self-managed portfolio started lagging. I was holding too many “stable” large caps that were essentially dead money. Melisa helped me transition into a mix that included XMMO and some high-conviction growth plays. My account went from roughly $250k to over two million in less than two years just by staying on the right side of the trend..
I’m convinced that investing 50k–100k in the right company before it goes big is more important than saving for retirement. However, picking the right company is so hard. I have around 200k in a HYSA and want to invest it. What are the best opportunities now?
Getting a financial advisor at a brokerage will do, bc it means professional investment management, trading services, weekly reports, and no extra fees. Not for beginners alone—but it saves you from YouTubers’ nonsense and daily hopium.
To be honest, I went through a lot of losses before things started working out. What helped me most was learning to be patient, manage risk properly, and follow guidance from Judith ann, a CFA professional I was introduced to a while back. It wasn’t an overnight thing, but staying consistent made a big difference
My Goodness!..honestly that woman has always been at the top of my list. We desperately need more people like her in the field of digital investment, her tra-ding knowledge is like a secret recipe for success
I wish I saw this an hour ago… just got liquidated on a scalp because I thought a breakout was happening. It’s so frustrating feeling like the market is moving against you personally.
Suprised to see Judith name mentioned here.. I’ve known her for years, and one thing I respect about her is how dedicated and consistent she is. She has been helping my family with our investments for over 5 years now, and we’re truly grateful for all she has done. Wishing her nothing but the best
Who in 2026 still believe these guys 😂 wake up folks!
did you sell your bird?? “birds gotta go” i remember you crying over it during covid era lol
Isn’t this guy on trial
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