“Don’t F* With Me!” Grant Cardone Breaks Silence on Controversy, Lawsuits, & Selling Real Estate

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**Grant Cardone** (0:15)
I am not here to satisfy you. I don't care if you like me or not, man. Grant Cardone.

**Graham Stephan** (0:19)
The man himself.

**Jack Selby** (0:21)
What do you think is a criticism about you that's fair?

**Grant Cardone** (0:24)
There's a lot.

**Jack Selby** (0:25)
Where do we start?

**Grant Cardone** (0:27)
This is why people hate me. I have debt on $2.2 billion of real estate. I would appear to be disconnected.
There it is. This is cool. Showing the plane can appear to be arrogant to some people. Overconfident. What I have here is a fleet.

**Jack Selby** (0:44)
How much of that, though, is just played up for the camera?

**Grant Cardone** (0:46)
No, I don't play up. There's not a play up.

**SPEAKER_4** (0:49)
The main controversy surrounding you would just be mostly around the fee schedule for your Cardone capital. People don't quite understand it. And I still like don't even understand.

**Grant Cardone** (0:58)
Well, what don't you understand, bro? What's your IQ? It's not a math number. It's an idea. The real issue here around money is roles and responsibility.

**Jack Selby** (1:06)
So what do most people get wrong?

**Grant Cardone** (1:08)
Well, they don't ask me like you guys did. They do YouTube videos. Don't make accusations that aren't true when you know they're not true because the moment you move into the definition and own something, if you own any property, I'm going to come get it from you.

**Jack Selby** (1:22)
Grant Cardone, thank you so much for coming on The Iced Coffee Hour. Really appreciate it.

**Grant Cardone** (1:25)
Yeah, thanks.

**Jack Selby** (1:26)
What do you think is a criticism about you that's fair?

**Grant Cardone** (1:29)
Oh, man, there's a lot.

**Jack Selby** (1:31)
Where do we start?

**Grant Cardone** (1:32)
Yeah, where do you start, okay? You know, the fair criticism is, I mean, there's some unfair, but the fair would be that I would appear to be disconnected maybe from because of what I've achieved. The plane, showing the plane can appear to be arrogant to some people.
Arrogance, overconfident. What do they say about me? Trump supporter, get a lot of hate for the Trump support. You know, some of this stuff about the offerings on the investments, that's completely unfair because what we've done for 20,000 investors is unbelievable. To provide people with access to institutional quality assets the way we have at scale.

**SPEAKER_4** (2:20)
But you would say, the arrogance, so you say people claim...

**Grant Cardone** (2:24)
When I watch my own stuff, I'm like, do you look so arrogant when you present stuff? And then I'm not thoughtful enough about how people receive something.

**Jack Selby** (2:35)
How much of that, though, is just played up for the camera?

**Grant Cardone** (2:37)
No, no, it's not. I don't play up. There's not a play up. There's not, okay, I'm going to do this because this is going to trigger people.

**Jack Selby** (2:46)
So, when you said that someone making 400,000 a year is broke?

**Grant Cardone** (2:49)
That was done. It's a great, it's a perfect example. Okay, that was not contrived. I had no clue that would happen.

**Jack Selby** (2:55)
You just said it.

**Grant Cardone** (2:56)
By the way, that was videoed in front of an insurance company. There was 120 people in the room, very large insurance company, and they hired me to come speak to their people. I said, hey, I asked the CEO, what do you want me to, you know, what would you like me to do? He's like, look, I got a couple of guys making $10 million a year and everybody else is here is making 400 grand. He's like, I need you to freaking amp these guys up to make 10 million each. I said, okay, I got it. So my opening line was, look, if you're in this room, okay, this was pre-internet.
That video was probably four or five years old when it was found, and then put on one of the social platforms. I don't even think the social platforms existed when I did that event. That's how old it was. It could be seven years old. And he said, I need you to get the $400,000 guys off their ass to earn more money. I said, well, what's the most money you can earn? He's like, I got guys making $10 million a year in this room. So my opening line was, if you're in this room and you're sitting with people making $10 million, and you all have the same opportunity, and you're making $400,000, I don't even know how you go home and feel good about yourself. That was the line.