Larry Winget Quotes - Page 2

Businesses get better only when the people in the business get better.

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.

A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.

Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.

Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.

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.

Don't be different. Different scares people. People won't spend their money on different. They will, however, pay a premium for unique.

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.

You can’t have a bully without a victim.

What you think of me is none of my business.

Everything has a price, including both success and failure. Choose either one and be prepared to pay the price.

If you don't have much going wrong in your life, then you don't have much going on in your life.

I think that people have to have a story. When you tell a story, most people are not good storytellers because they think it's about them. You have to make your story, whatever story it is you're telling, their story. So you have to get good at telling a story so they can identify themselves in your story.

It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.

As your employer, if I see that you have to work hard to get your results, yet your coworkers achieve their results with little effort, don't be surprised if I'm not all that impressed with your hard work.

It seems to me most people make the mistake of never building a following where they are considered a resource to their fan base so when they do release the book there will be somebody there to buy it.

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 have done the merry-go-round and I have ridden the roller-coaster. I have made my choice. I choose the roller-coaster. There is more risk when you choose the roller-coaster, but at least you will know you have lived.

Make yourself happy and surround yourself with people who are cool with that.

Abandoning who people think you are and becoming who you really are is a simple concept, but sometimes it is very hard to do. It isn't easy to give up others' ideas of who you are. Yet the key to success is to discover your uniqueness and to exploit it. Your authentic persona, either personal or corporate, is the key to your prosperity.

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.

When I'm writing a book - say I'm going to write a parenting book. I'll go out and buy the 100 top parenting books and I will read those, not so I can copy them for sure.

I've read over 4,000 books in the last 20+ years. I don't know anybody who's read more books than I have. I read all the time. I read very, very fast. People say, "Larry, it's statistically impossible for you to have read that many books."

Love brings about passion and passion is always marketable.

You can’t step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.