DALLAS (AURN News) — Grant Cardone, who built a multi-billion real estate empire after battling drug addiction and homelessness, has a controversial message about success: your failures won't make you stronger. The real estate mogul and business consultant is challenging the popular narrative that hardship builds character, offering instead a stark assessment of his own path to wealth.

"I wish I could tell you that there was some benefit to those 10 years," Cardone told AURN News about his decade-long struggle with drug addiction. "There is nothing to be accomplished by going through 10 years of hell."

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