WEALTH VS. RICHES

The Cardone Zone

Grant Cardone

Careers, Business, 025610

4.8 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode of The Cardone Zone, Grant Cardone dives deep into the real definition of wealth — not just money or possessions, but abundance, freedom, and the ability to live without worry. True wealth is having more than enough of what you need and desire, while most people settle for survival instead of prosperity.

Grant draws a clear line between being rich and being wealthy, exposing the limitations of the scarcity-driven mindset promoted by ideas like The Millionaire Next Door. Saving, cutting costs, and living small won't make you wealthy — they'll only make you afraid. You can't save your way to success; you must produce your way there. Most people live paycheck to paycheck because they focus on defense, not offense — trying to protect what little they have, instead of expanding what they could create.

Using real-world examples from Bezos, Musk, Gates, and Jay-Z, Grant explains how the truly wealthy focus on creation, expansion, and contribution. They know that money is a tool for freedom and growth, not something to be hoarded. When you shift from controlling costs to creating value, you transform your life from one of worry to one of abundance.

This is your wake-up call to stop measuring your life by cost and start measuring it by contribution, growth, and production. The moment you stop worrying and start creating, you step into real wealth.

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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, artist, 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.
0:15.1	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 going to 10x
0:21.9	everything you thinks, the way you work, the way you act, and the way you roll every single day.
0:27.7	Make sure you subscribe and comment. Love to see what you're talking about and get ready for today's show.
0:34.0	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
0:42.7	that is vital to your survival.
0:44.6	Wealth is not dependent upon one thing, the limit of a bank account, a car, a house, a job,
0:49.3	a relationship, your income.
0:51.0	It's having more than enough of everything that you want and need. It's abundance
0:55.9	and affluence. Wealth is different than rich and certainly different than the millionaire next door.
1:02.3	Notice that wealth does not include worry. The millionaire next door is all about worry. It's buy
1:07.8	a used car and don't go to Starbucks. It's what not to do, not how to create
1:12.9	abundance and prosperity. 76% of Americans today are living paycheck to paycheck in the richest
1:18.9	country on the planet. Maybe you're worried about whether you can afford $5 coffee, picking
1:23.5	up a check at the restaurant, about your student loans, or maybe you're worried about paying
1:27.0	the 30-year mortgage off or about paying paying your kid's school tuition. Chances are you're reading this book because you're worried, or because you're just not where you know you could be, or maybe because you, like me, know you could be wealthy. You're just trying to figure out what's holding you back. Here's the truth. You cannot worry your way to abundance.
1:46.1	You cannot worry your way to wealth.
1:48.1	The truly wealthy do not worry.
1:52.2	I'm not talking about your 80-year-old neighbor who finally had a net worth of a million dollars after 79 years of worrying, saving.
1:55.8	I'm not talking about him.
1:57.2	Today I'm talking to you about the truly wealthy.
1:59.0	It's said that Jeff Bezos is going to spend
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