if you if you made it here man
and i was just a velvet they didn't even trust me to wait on the table
i was a busboy and i'll tell you when i hate i knew i hated the job
i hated the job when i cleaned up and nobody i walked up nobody
acknowledged me i picked up nobody thanked me
and i i was like i was devastated i was like i cannot believe
those people out there didn't say thank you hello
i was like wow i am no one and i made a decision that day
i can't be no one i mean i just cannot do this
is where all the rich people came and i and it really made me feel less because
i couldn't belong didn't belong here i didn't know the people here
place was overwhelming to me can you believe this overwhelmed me
didn't know how to be around the people i thought were so rich
there was probably nobody there that rich right diane right
it wasn't about them having their chins in there it was about me having really
about my chin being down i i just
i didn't have any direction i mean i i can't even imagine being an inner city
kid today a black inner city kid or hispanic or
even a poor white kid no dad dude the the issue is no dad i'm telling you
the issue is that not having a dad is or having a dad
that's not available or it's a big issue it's a giant loss to a
kid or the mother not being there you know
but one of the parents not providing whatever that parent provides
it really it really affects the kid they kid people need direction
and guidance and that's why my dad i mean my dad worked so hard that's all i
saw him do all the time he worked and worked and worked
and laughed he worked he laughed and he made friends with everybody he
talked to every person he passed by and i do all those things today and
my dad never ever one time told me to do those things that's what my dad
did 25 years old 26
27 i sold so many cars here right out here on this lot man this is
this
this was mine okay i ruled this hungry i was
what are you what do you say i was batman of the blacktop
all right i was superman on the sidewalk dude i moved some iron
we were rolling so much iron out of this joint it was unbelievable
i'm doing 30 pieces every 14 days just like clockwork clipping it okay
they called me grant cardone and mr right
because i get your payment right to price right i do it in the rain
i do it in the sunshine i do it when it was cold i do it when it was wet
it didn't matter man i do it on sundays and there's a blue law in louisiana
right here this is my little house this was my kingdom
this is where i learned to get my entrepreneurial
but i never sat down i was on these feet every second of every day i had these
rubber soles big pick rubber soles because i was pounding this pavement all
day long and we didn't have a big sign like that
we weren't this big we rolled some iron out of this joint
back in the day man
and i roam i roam this place every morning i'd come in here i'd turn these
cars around one day they'd be facing that way the next day they'd be facing
this way hoods are up doors are open we were
jacked up and jammed
makes me want to sell something right now
all right here this is where i decided this is where i became a professional
sales person right here every day i brought i'd show
up here an hour and a half early every day
i'd stay till midnight dude i was here at seven o'clock in the morning had a
25-minute drive i'm here until eleven twelve o'clock at
night everybody's going for me i'm in there looking hunting
sniffing figuring out on the phone pounding this is where i started my
career okay yeah makes me proud