Larry Winget Quotes
You are not paid to work hard. In fact, you are not paid for effort at all. You are paid for results. It's not what you do; it's what you get done.
Every single person on the planet is rewarded for one thing and one thing only, and that is for serving other people. The more you serve others, the higher your reward.
Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.
Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.
Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.
Don’t measure busywork. Don’t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesn’t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.
If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.
Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.
The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.
Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.
You have to move beyond that vision of the way your life has always looked and begin to picture your life as you want it to look.
There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.
Don't be different. Different scares people. People won't spend their money on different. They will, however, pay a premium for unique.
Go to your checkbook and see what you spend money on. In an instant, you will know what is important to you because your money goes toward it.
Everything has a price, including both success and failure. Choose either one and be prepared to pay the price.
A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.
Success is not a secret – it never has been. There are only a few really good ideas and not one of them is a secret.
Be confident. There is no one who is not attracted to confidence. Women dig it. Men love it. Confidence adds hair, drops ten pounds, and takes off ten years.
My brand was always going to be based on my personality. I didn't want people hiring me for what I said. I wanted them hiring me for who I am.
Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.
Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past the first chapter. To me, the title better say everything there is to say about the book.
I have discovered that enemies will buy your books as much as your fans buy your books because they're looking for something new to hate you for.
I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.
It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.
If you don't have much going wrong in your life, then you don't have much going on in your life.
I think it's easy to get a book in a bookstore. I think it's just damn near impossible to get a book out of a bookstore.
I looked at the fact that people were in such financial trouble I said well people are broke because they want to be.
Age-old question: Is the glass half empty or half full? Answer: Who cares? Does it really matter whether the glass is half full or half empty? The issue is whether it quenches your thirst.
Don't educate people; touch them emotionally. Remember that people want to be scared or they want to be made happy or they want to be made sad.
I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.
I understand what my brand is. My brand is not my information. My brand is me and what I say is secondary to who I am.
I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.
I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my basic gut reaction to that and that gut reaction usually becomes the title of the book.
The premise, to me, is the most important thing that you have to know going in. It's the problem as you see it. So I write down the problem as I see it. That is the premise for my book.
There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating.
I think it's more helpful to keep your books sort of a singular focus. Get it said, get it said well, fascinate people with your words and then write another book.