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today's show. Just a thousand hours. As human beings, we take so many things for granted. I lost my dad when I was only 10. I lost my older brother when I was only 20. I talked to him on Monday night and boom, Tuesday morning he was gone. When I was 10, they took my dad off to hospital in Houston from our home in Louisiana. I thought he was coming back. I was for sure. I had no idea he would never come back. He was

intensive care for 21 days. That day they were going to release my dad. Everybody was optimistic.

He had only made two requests of my mother on his deathbed. Take care of those boys and tell

them to learn how to sell. I spent maybe a thousand hours with my dad my entire life,

but in those thousand hours he taught me so much. I probably only spent a thousand hours with

my dad my whole life, but in those few hours, he taught me a lot. And those were three things

that have really stayed with me my whole life. Curtis Cardone lesson. Number one, work hard.

First, my dad ingrained me hard work. He never sat down with me and said, hey, Grant, let's talk

about hard work. It was through his actions. My dad's eyes could be bleeding and he'd still show up for

work. He never had excuses. He always worked. He always worked five days at work and two days in the weekend at work again. He believed that it was his duty, his obligation to his wife, his five kids, to his parents, his brothers, and to his community to work.

Curtis Cardone lesson number two. Protect your reputation. The second thing my dad taught me, and he told me this, was to protect my reputation,

especially by the way of acknowledging other people. My dad would talk to everyone. He never passed

someone. He didn't act like he knew. He said hello to everyone. And he said to me, hey, Grant, make sure

you talk to everybody. Pay attention to everybody. Talk to people. He set that example by the way he lived. He told me that my name was everything and to do everything to make myself known and to protect my name.

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