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{{AFC comment|1=Several junk sources, but no reliable independent secondary sources discussing Cardone in any depth. ''[[User:Bonadea|bonadea]]'' <small>[[Special:Contributions/Bonadea|contributions]] [[User talk:Bonadea|talk]]</small> 13:58, 31 October 2024 (UTC)}}

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{{Short description|American financial influencer}}
{{Draft topics|biography|north-america}}
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'''Grant Cardone''' (born 21 March 1958) is an American businessman,<ref name=Richest>{{cite web |url=https://www.therichest.com/rich-powerful/cardone-capital-heres-how-grant-cardone-made-his-600-million-fortune/ |title=Cardone Capital: Here's How Grant Cardone Made His $600 Million Fortune |last=Chandel |first=Pratibha |date=July 9, 2022 |website=therichest.com |publisher= }}</ref> real estate mogul,<ref name=Richest/> author, sales expert, motivational speaker and writer. Cardone is the founder and CEO of Cardone Capital,<ref name=LinkedIn>{{cite web |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/grantcardone |title=Grant Cardone – LinkedIn |website=[[LinkedIn]] |publisher= }}</ref> a [[Real estate investing|real estate investment]] and management firm based in [[Aventura, Florida]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Davis |first=Ron |date=December 1, 2022 |title=South Florida multifamily investor buys Scottsdale office building where it plans its second HQ |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/news/2022/12/01/cardone-capital-buys-promenade-corporate-center.html |work=[[American City Business Journals|Phoenix Business Journal]] }}</ref>

==Early life==
Cardone was born on 21 March 1958<ref name=Richest/> in [[Lake Charles, Louisiana]]<ref name=GCTV>{{cite web |url=https://gctv.com/start-every-day/ |title=The #1 Way I Start EVERY Day |last=Cardone |first=Grant |date=March 29, 2022 |website=gctv.com |quote=For those of you who don't know, I was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. My widowed mother raised me and my siblings on the small life insurance settlement my father had left behind. I didn't make things easier for myself by getting in with the wrong crowd. }}</ref> to Concetta Neil and Curtis Louis Cardone,<ref name=MEAWW>{{cite news |last=Fernandes |first=Aurelia |date=February 10, 2021 |title=Who are Grant Cardone's parents? 'Undercover Billionaire' star talks about his parents, death and drug abuse |url=https://meaww.com/curtis-louis-concetta-neil-cardone-grant-cardone-parents-drug-abuse-undercover-billionaire |work=Media Entertainment Arts WorldWide (MEAWW) }}</ref> both of whom were children to Italian immigrants who came to the United States in the early 1900s.<ref name=MEAWW/> When Cardone was 10-years-old, his father Curtis Louis, died, leaving him and his siblings to be raised by his mother on a small life insurance settlement that his father had allegedly left behind.<ref name=GCTV/> Cardone also struggled with drug addiction and [[substance abuse]] beginning in his teen years.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://medium.com/@grantcardone/from-drug-addict-to-billionaire-my-story-c671c303147e |title=From Drug Addict to Billionaire: My Story |last=Cardone |first=Grant |date=February 24, 2022 |website=[[Medium (website)|Medium]] |publisher= }}</ref> Cardone attended [[McNeese State University]] in Louisiana, graduating in 1981 with an accounting degree.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.mcneesealumni.com/s/1148/bp/interior.aspx?sid=1148&gid=1&pgid=252&cid=1257&ecid=1257&crid=0&calpgid=61&calcid=882 |title=McNeese Alumni Association – Distinguished Alumni Receive Prestigious Award |date= |website=mcneesealumni.com |publisher= }}{{Dead link|date=June 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Cardone |first=Grant |date=March 31, 2016 |title=College is Good for Getting a Job but Not Necessarily for Getting Rich |url=https://www.entrepreneur.com/growing-a-business/college-is-good-for-getting-a-job-but-not-necessarily-for/273194 |magazine=[[Entrepreneur (magazine)|Entrepreneur]] |publisher= }}</ref>

== Legal issues ==

In 2015 and 2016, several employees filed EEOC complaints against Cardone Training Technologies, Inc. after being fired for refusing to take [[Scientology]] training courses under the name "[[L. Ron Hubbard]] training".<ref>{{cite web |title=Former workers file EEOC complaints saying Grant Cardone forced Scientology on them |date=August 12, 2016 |first=Tony |last=Ortega |url=https://tonyortega.org/2016/08/12/former-workers-file-eeoc-complaints-saying-grant-cardone-forced-scientology-on-them/}}</ref>

Cardone's company has sued several clients who could no longer afford the hefty monthly payments on their training contracts. Having no [[Termination Clause|termination clauses]], the clients were sued for tens of thousands of remaining balance on the contract.{{r|huff}}

A report showed that from 2018 to 2021, a Cardone Capital-owned Miami-area apartment complex overcharged tenants for [[workforce housing]] — rental units which have been contracted with a government program to provide discounted housing to renters employed in key industries such as nurses, teachers and firefighters who would otherwise be priced out of the area.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cardone's Lake Worth workforce housing complex found overcharging tenants |date=December 13, 2022 |publisher=The Real Deal |url=https://therealdeal.com/miami/2022/12/13/cardones-lake-worth-workforce-housing-complex-found-overcharging-tenants/}}</ref>

In 2020, a client sued Grant Cardone and Cardone Capital, LLC for violating [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission]] regulations regarding potential misstatements or omissions. The lawsuit, a putative class action, had cited Cardone's own words: "You're gonna walk away with a 15% annualized return. If I'm in that deal for 10 years, you're gonna earn 150%. You can tell the SEC that's what I said it would be. They call me Uncle G and some people call me Nostradamus, because I'm predicting the future, dude; this is what's gonna happen." A [[Federal District Court]] in California had dismissed the plaintiff's claims, saying that statements on social media were not actionable under the [[Securities Act of 1933|Securities Act]], but the [[US Court of Appeals]] reversed the dismissal. The plaintiff's attorney said it was important to hold that "sellers of securities that use social media communications to communicate with prospective investors are engaged in solicitation that can be actionable under the Securities Act."{{r|huff}}<ref>{{cite web |title=Court revives lawsuit against 10X wealth guru Grant Cardone |date=December 23, 2022 |first=Brian |last=Bandell |publisher=South Florida Business Journal |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2022/12/23/court-revives-lawsuit-against-grant-cardone.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Grant Cardone is back on the hook in a class action suit |date=December 28, 2022 |first=Francisco |last=Alvarado |publisher=The Real Deal |url=https://therealdeal.com/miami/2022/12/28/grant-cardone-is-back-on-the-hook-in-a-class-action-suit/}}</ref>

{{blockquote |text=Paul Pelletier, who was the [[United States Department of Justice|Department of Justice]]'s most senior fraud prosecutor during a 25-year career at the agency, reviewed the documents in the class action case against Cardone. "It looks like his business is built on lies and deception that will likely collapse leaving investors holding an empty bag," he said. |source=[[BuzzFeed News]]{{r|huff}}}}

== Personal life ==

Cardone married Elena on July 4, 2004. They have two daughters, Sabrina and Scarlett.<ref name="elena">{{cite web |url=https://elenacardone.com/about/ |title=About |website=Elena Cardone}}</ref> The Cardones reside in [[Golden Beach, Florida]] and [[Malibu, California]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Bandell |first=Brian |date=June 4, 2021 |title=Fashion icon Tommy Hilfiger sells Golden Beach mansion for $24M (Photos) |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2021/06/04/tommy-hilfiger-sells-golden-beach-home.html |work=[[American City Business Journals|South Florida Business Journal]] |url-access=subscription |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/MrucF |archive-date=June 16, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{multiref2 |1={{cite news |last=McClain |first=James |date=January 19, 2022 |title=Grant Cardone Pays $40 Million for Huge Carbon Beach Mansion |url=https://www.dirt.com/gallery/moguls/power-players/grant-cardone-house-malibu-1203447529/ |work=dirt.com }} |2={{cite web |url=https://www.fancypantshomes.com/celebrity-homes/grant-cardone-house/ |title=Grant Cardone's Houses: A $40M 'Castle on the Sand' and a Wildly Colorful Main Residence in Florida |last=Neamt |first=Ioana |date=March 10, 2022 |website=fancypantshomes.com |publisher= }} }}</ref> Cardone is a [[Scientology|Scientologist]] who has reached the [[OT VIII]] level.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://thehollywoodsentinel.com/issue20article7.html |title=Grant Cardone - World Financial Leader |first=Bruce |last=Edwin |date=November 2009 |website=The Hollywood Sentinel}}</ref><ref name="villagevoice">{{multiref2 |1={{cite web |url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/06/grant_cardone_t.php |title=Grant Cardone, NatGeo's 'Turnaround King': Doing Scientology's Dirty Work? |date=June 20, 2011 |first=Tony |last=Ortega |author-link=Tony Ortega |publisher=The Village Voice |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624035927/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/06/grant_cardone_t.php |archive-date=June 24, 2011}} |2={{cite web |url=http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/06/milton_katselas.php |title=Milton Katselas Pleads With Scientology After Grant Cardone's Attack: A Church Jihad? |date=June 24, 2011 |first=Tony |last=Ortega |author-link=Tony Ortega |publisher=The Village Voice |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110627141939/http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2011/06/milton_katselas.php |archive-date=June 27, 2011}} }}</ref>

== Bibliography ==
Books authored by Grant Cardone include the following:
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* {{cite book |title=If You're Not First, You're Last |year=2010 |publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]] |isbn=9780470624357}}
* {{cite book |title=The 10X Rule |year=2011 |publisher=[[Wiley (publisher)|Wiley]] |isbn=9780470627600}}
* {{cite book |title=Sell or Be Sold (also known as ''Sell to Survive'') |year=2012 |publisher=[[Greenleaf Book Group]] |isbn=9780615399249 |ol=26106443M}}
* {{cite book |title=Be Obsessed or Be Average |year=2016 |publisher=[[Portfolio (publisher)|Portfolio]] |isbn=9781101981054}}
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* {{cite book |title=The Closer's Survival Guide |year=2009 |publisher=Card1 Publications |isbn=9781607431091}}
* {{cite book |title=How to Create Wealth Investing in Real Estate |year=2018 |publisher=Grant Cardone |isbn=9781945661532}}
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==References==
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<ref name="huff">{{cite web |title=Financial Influencer Grant Cardone Says He Can Make You A Billionaire. His Investors Claim He Defrauded Them. |date=July 20, 2023 |first=Tom |last=Warren |publisher=HuffPost |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/grant-cardone-financial-influencer_n_64ada368e4b0e87d65574e9b}}</ref>

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