The middle class is a story. Wealth is a strategy.

The Cardone Zone

Grant Cardone

Business, Careers

4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

The Cardone Zone – Episode 300

In this milestone episode, Grant Cardone breaks open one of the biggest financial myths ever sold to the public — the "middle class."

For decades, people have been told that living comfortably, earning a paycheck, and slowly saving is the path to security. Grant dismantles that narrative and exposes why the middle-class mindset can actually keep people stuck.

The difference between income, money, and real wealth
Why wealth is not about comfort — it's about ownership and control

If you've ever questioned the traditional path of getting a job, saving money, and retiring someday, this episode challenges that model and replaces it with the basics of a strategy built on massive action, ownership, and expansion.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the Cardone Zone, my newest podcast where every week I'll bring to you a new celebrity,
0:06.7	artists, athletes, some of the top people in their field, CEOs from around the world, running the world to give you their insights, their knowledge, and their breakthroughs.
0:15.6	Look, these people came from nothing just like I did. So get ready with Uncle G. You're in for the ride of your life where we're
0:21.7	going to 10x everything you thinks, the way you work, the way you act, and the way you roll every single
0:27.5	day. Make sure you subscribe and comment. Love to see what you're talking about. Get ready for today's
0:32.8	show. Everyone uses the word wealth. Most people say they want wealth, but do you actually know what wealth means?
0:40.5	If you want wealth in your life, you have to know what it is. Wealth is having more than enough, by definition, more than enough, abundance of everything that is vital to your survival.
0:50.8	Wealth is not dependent upon one thing, the limit of a bank account, a car, a house,
0:55.1	a job, a relationship, your income. It's having more than enough of everything that you want and need.
1:01.5	It's abundance and affluence. Wealth is different than rich and certainly different than the
1:07.1	millionaire next door. Notice that wealth does not include worry. The millionaire next door
1:11.8	is all about worry. It's buy a used car and don't go to Starbucks. It's what not to do, not how to
1:18.8	create abundance and prosperity. 76% of Americans today are living paycheck to paycheck in the
1:24.9	richest country on the planet. Maybe you're worried about whether you can
1:28.2	afford $5 coffee, picking up a check at the restaurant, about your student loans, or maybe you're
1:32.6	worried about paying the 30-year mortgage off, or about paying your kids school tuition. Chances
1:37.7	are you're reading this book because you're worried or because you're just not where you know
1:41.7	you could be. Or maybe because you, like me, know you could be or maybe because you like me know you could
1:45.3	be wealthy you're just trying to figure out what's holding you back here's the truth you cannot worry
1:49.5	your way to abundance you cannot worry your way to wealth the truly wealthy do not worry I'm not
1:54.9	talking about your 80 year old neighbor who finally had a net worth of a million dollars after
1:59.3	79 years of worrying saving he's not in
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