Flying First Class, Grant Cardone, and How Sam Enraged Goldman Sachs

**Sam Parr** (0:00)
All right, there's this amazing book called Getting Everything You Can Out Of All You've Got. I read it a few years ago and it changed my life.
And the reason I loved it was because it basically talks about how to get and make more money using things that you already have. Coincidentally, today's podcast is brought to you by Business Made Simple. It's a podcast by Donald Miller, who I'm gonna tell you about in a second, but he has this amazing episode that's all related to this book and the things that I learned in this book. It's called How To Make Money With What You Already Have. It's an incredible episode. It talks about all the stuff that I learned in this book. The host is Donald Miller. I didn't know who Donald Miller was up until recently, but over the last 12 months, this is totally by coincidence. It was all separate people. They said, you have to check out Donald Miller. He's amazing. So I'm happy that he's part of HubSpot's podcast network. You can check it out, Business Made Simple Podcast. It's where he coaches you on how to build your business like an airplane, where the cockpit is your leadership, the body is your overhead, the right engine is your marketing, the left engine is your sales. You have to check it out. This guy's amazing. It's called Business Made Simple with Donald Miller.
I was reading an article in the New York Times and it was about these Malibu homes and how like these crazy rich guys are coming in and buying these homes. And Grant Cardone was one of the features and they didn't feature him as Grant Cardone. They're like, another local buyer is motivational speaker and real estate entrepreneur, Grant Cardone. And he was just like a guy they were interviewing, not like this internet.
And he recently bought a house in Malibu. I think it was for $60 million. And he was like, I'm gonna spend another, I forget, tens of millions of dollars renovating it.
And that's one of those things that when you see people what they spend on their personal real estate, I mean, it's hard to fake that. And I'm just thinking, who would have thought that those things that he's selling would make that much wealth?
I have a question, when was the last time that you have flown?

**Shaan Puri** (1:57)
I just flew last week. No, sorry, not last week, last month, Hawaii.

**Sam Parr** (2:01)
How about before that?

**Shaan Puri** (2:03)
Yeah, I don't know. When we went to Austin, Miami, something like that.

**Sam Parr** (2:08)
So like once a year at this point? Or once every six months?

**Shaan Puri** (2:12)
Yeah, I'm not flying a ton right now.

**Sam Parr** (2:15)
When you flew to Hawaii, did you fly first class or coach?

**Shaan Puri** (2:18)
Yeah, first.

**Sam Parr** (2:21)
So I went to Idaho this weekend with Ben, podcast Ben. And I spoke at an event, which we have to talk about ConvertKit's new thing.
And I don't like to travel. You don't like to travel.
And this was work related. So like they wanted me to speak at a conference. And whenever they want me to speak at a conference, I say, yeah, that's cool. I'll come and speak. But you have to pay for a first class flight for me and Sarah, my wife. I'm like, that's a fair trade. Don't pay me to come because I like you, but like I do want you to pay for my flight. And it has to be first class because I don't like flying coach. Well, my flights got screwed up for some reason, both ways. And I had to fly like middle seat, like back row, because like basically the flight got canceled and they like fit me on these like last ones. And I was flying on this and I started thinking, do you know that stereotype, a story of this like rich billionaire? And they say like, oh yeah, you know, even though he was a billionaire, he still flew coach.
And like nothing changed. Like I think the idea, nothing changed.

**Shaan Puri** (3:21)
And I think that is. Oh, Amazon, all their desks were old doors.
Which I tried to, dude, I did that.

**Sam Parr** (3:30)
I did that to be cute at our office. It cost more to do that. A door.

**Shaan Puri** (3:35)
Is a door expensive? Also, did you?

**Sam Parr** (3:38)
I bought the shittiest door and it was like, yeah, I bought like the shittiest door and it was like $80 and then we bought cinder blocks and it was like a pain in the ass. I'm like, dude, this thing's in Ikea for 25 bucks. This is way better.