when I was in my early teens 13 14 years old and all the way to my early very
early 20s I was a very very destructive young man my goal is to meet as many
people on this planet as possible to see people that are positive people that
have more time to create and to be critical more time to hustle than they
have to hate and they want to actually add strategy and techniques that are
proven to grow their business so that they can take care their family in the
church I see all this destruction going on in the world today it reminds me of
when I didn't have purpose I'd given up on my dreams I'd given up on my
potential I've given up a lot possibilities and I had no direction
when I had given up on my dreams and I saw the doctor next door building his
the business owner in the little town I grew up in that had the pool company the
school I destroyed the school I was out shooting people's property on the
weekends and I'm telling you this because I was doing all this shamelessly
admit I was doing destructive behavior I was killing other people's dreams and
destroying their property because I wasn't creating my own property and
building my own dream I could so relate to the kids in these cities right now
that that are out on the weekends and nights looting and destroying I know
that's not who you really are just want I just want to remind everybody that you
know if you're not building your own dream if you give up in your own dreams
you're gonna want it you're gonna naturally want to destroy somebody
else's but it's not going to make your dream anymore reality now is the time
where we could be building businesses not burning them rather than protesting
and I know you have the right to protest but we need to teach people how to
invest not just protest how to build not just
and I plead with everybody today to one have understanding and some empathy for
what's going on in our country right now it's destructive it's terrible it's like
nobody likes this this isn't a democratic or republican snot white
black brown it's nothing it's like dreams it's about building dreams you
have the opportunity to build a dream I didn't know when I was 15 years old that
one day I could own a jet I didn't know I could own a business that that had
million iiiiii I didn't even think about millions much less billions of dollars I
didn't think about trips where I could travel 19 countries in one year I was 19
years old I was lost I was without purpose I was without my dreams I was
not doing what I needed to do I was forced to go to school every day and I
hated school man if I can help you if I can help you
if I can do anything to mentor you to guide you to give you some direction on
how to get out of this and make your dreams in reality I'll do everything I
can to help I know a lot of my friends that that have done a like same thing
and more than I have in their life they've come from nothing I got a lot of
friends that have a similar story that I have maybe a similar story to what you
have that have figured out how to turn it around this is a turnaround moment
you could turn everything around now you could you could you could go from
destroying somebody else's dreams their business you could you could choose to
continue to do that or you could be like I'm gonna take all that energy
unbelievable amount of energy and I'm gonna figure out how to build my own
dream the American Dream still real but it
can't be that I'm gonna take your dream away in order to go mine hate hate hate
has never built anything and I'm just telling you I wasted at least seven
years of my life maybe ten tearing up other people's stuff
because inside I was torn up because I knew the truth and the truth is I was
wasting my potential not just my time I was wasting my potential I was bored
I wasn't building and when I'm bored when I have too much free time on my
hands when I have no hope no mentor no god it's no Direction no possibility no
roadmap guess what I'm going nowhere I turned my life around when I was 25 it
took me hitting bottom okay 23 I was beat and had 70 76
stitches put in my head and face I spent two days three days in the house spent
three days in the hospital it would take me two years before I would hit bottom
went clean myself up in a treatment center got off the drugs and decided I'm
gonna turn my life forever I was 30 32 27 years ago 37 years ago yeah it was a
long time ago man but it feels like it was yesterday you look at me today and
you're like oh man that guy's got it made
got some money got a plane got a wife and two kids none of that none of that
was possible as long as I was just wearing somebody else's trunks the
businesses you're tearing down you could hone those you could build those the
amount of energy that it takes to go tear something down could be converted
to I'm gonna build a business you can build a business today with no money I
can help you do that so this weekend man rather than acting
like an ass let's decide to build assets and I'm not calling you an ass right now
I'm not judging you right now I know I was being an ass when I was 15 and 16
and 17 and 18 and 19 and it wasn't because I wanted to be a dum-dum it's
because I was acting like a dum-dum when I could have been building when I could
have been investing when I could have been learning I was destroying the fact
that you had built something bothered me so much because it reminded me of what I
did not do your potential you achieving your potential reminded me I wasn't
achieving my own potential I had everybody to blame but the problem was
the blame did not shift my game upward it shifted it downward it didn't make me
better you could be anything in this country you can be anything if you've
never lived outside of this country you need to remember in America if you don't
have this reference point it's vital in America you can actually do anything I
know there's oppression I know they're suppression in this country I know that
the deck is stacked against most of us but that doesn't mean you can't win even
when I have bad cards even when I have a bad hand I can still win if I know how
to play the game so look think long term right now not just this weekend think
investing not protesting think building not burning okay think about I'm gonna
build something for my family long-term that's an asset rather than getting
caught on video and looking like an ass I know it's funny in the moment when I
was a teenager I was laughing man I'm destroying people stuff I'm popping
people's cars I'm destroying car dealerships in a little town in
Louisiana these people had done nothing to me but I believed in my mind
okay because they had stuff I wanted and I didn't have it and because I had given
up on the things I wanted and they hadn't I decided I decided insanely
decided I'm gonna destroy what they built because I did not have the courage
for the persistence for the blueprint to build what they had built look at this
bird look at these two beautiful kids I have okay
that's waiting for you look at this beautiful marriage I have look at this
place that I live in okay this is a kid with a drug problem no dad no older
brother completely lost without direction I couldn't pay the rent at
this little new Plex right it was 275 a month now I own seven thousand of these
I had not been on a plane until I was 28 years old I had not flown on a
commercial flight till I was 28 today I owned my own plane the house I grew up
in was 1,400 square feet today I live in Miami on the beach my deck it is twice
the size of the house I grew up in was seven people I grew up in one little
town in the refinery town where the only job you can get there was a labor job or
a sales job that was it it's 25% unemployment today I hope people that
are unemployed find the life in their job of their dreams I grew up in a town
of 60,000 people today I know millions of people millions around the world that
believe in me in high school I couldn't get through a chapter of a
book I couldn't read in high school now I've written 21 best-selling books and
programs I lost seven jobs my first seven jobs I was unemployed by now I am
hired by fortune 500 companies to help inspire and teach how to get revenue I
couldn't get through my own University today I have Cardone University where 55
million people have logged in on how they can make their businesses in the
right the American Dream is alive and well you
can make this happen but you cannot build a dream by destroying someone
else's I plead with you this weekend okay start building again start
investing again let's pull together I don't care what your color is
you're black you're brown you're Asian whatever it doesn't matter to me
you're young you're old you're male you're female if I can help you if I can
mentor you out of this to where you want to get I'm willing to help you I'm not
here to hurt you no president no governor no senator no
congressman and no police chief will ever improve the quality of your life
it's never happened it's not gonna happen no matter how you vote in
November and you should whoever is elected will not change the quality of
your life only you can do that only you can do that for you and your family and
by the way that is your responsibility so let's quit the let's quit the
nightmare stuff that's going on in America and let's get back to building
your dream let's get everybody busy building their dream and they won't have
time to destroy other people's dreams
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