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Larry Winget, born on October 2, 1952, is an American author known for his works on personal growth, financial freedom, and success psychology. His writing style is characterized by its directness and humor, and his books and speeches have inspired many to pursue a better life.

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Famous Larry Winget Quotes

“The best advertisement you can have is a happy customer with a big mouth. The worst advertisement you can have is an unhappy customer with a big mouth.”

Wisdom Business Leader Value Service Customer Service Customer Advertisment

Book:It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

“Customer service is bad because we allow it to be bad. What do you do when you get bad service? Tell the truth. If you aren’t willing to speak up, then you are an accessory to the crime. You can’t ignore bad service and expect it to get better. Behavior that is ignored will be repeated. Next time you get bad service, speak up. Remember: it’s your money you are defending – money you worked hard for. Tell the company and others. Use the internet and social media. That’s how customer service will improve for all of us.”

Truth Business Rights Discipline Integrity Service Serving Customer Service Grow A Pair

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“Nobody ever wrote down a plan to be broke, fat, lazy, or stupid. Those things are what happen when you don’t have a plan.”

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“Kids are OUT of control because their parents are not IN control.”

Responsibility Discipline Parenting

Book:Your Kids Are Your Own Fault: A Guide For Raising Responsible, Productive Adults

Source: Your Kids Are Your Own Fault: A Guide For Raising Responsible, Productive Adults

“Leave God out of your mess and go look in the mirror instead.”

God Motivational Success Responsibility Excuses Personal Responsibility

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“What you tolerate is what you endorse.”

Tolerate Endorse

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“And most importantly, ask more from yourself! This is the real key. Ask what you can do to help. Ask what you have to offer. Ask what you can contribute. Ask how you can serve. Ask yourself how you can do more. Ask your spouse how you could be more helpful, loving or kind.”

Kind Real Helping Asks Can Do Keys Offers Helpful Spouse Helpfulness

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“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.”

Doe Matter Care Age Answers Half Issues Empty Glasses Realism Thirst Who Cares Quench Half Full Half Empty

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

Book:No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry Winget

Source: No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry Winget

“You can’t have a bully without a victim.”

Book:Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life

Source: Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life

“Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.”

Problem Solutions

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“I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.”

People Want Writing Book Picks Titles Good Book

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“I think everything in your life's your own damn fault and that's my simple philosophy in that, and I think you're broke because you want to be just like you're fat because you want to be or stupid because you want to be or unemployed, it must be because you want to be. Otherwise, it'd be different.”

Thinking Want Different Philosophy Simple Stupid Like You Faults Fats Broke Damn Unemployed

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“The title's more important than the book.”

Important Book Titles

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“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.”

People Firsts Book Past Library Checks Titles Chapters

Author:Larry Winget

“I have people who buy my books just so they can sit them around and show them off because of the titles, especially the Shut Up, Stop Whining and the Grow a Pair. So the title is very, very important.”

People Important Book Shows Grows Titles Pairs Shut Up Whining Stop Whining

Author:Larry Winget

“I've been very fortunate at having good titles but I just think in terms of titles. I'm doing a workshop now where people write books and they come and I name their books for them. I'm good with titles.”

People Thinking Writing Book Names Term Titles Fortunate Workshops

Author:Larry Winget

“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.”

Looks Book Moments Reactions Titles Guts Our Society

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“I looked at the fact that people were in such financial trouble I said well people are broke because they want to be.”

People Want Wells Said Facts Trouble Financial Broke

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“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.”

Knows Writing Important Book Problem Important Things Premises

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“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.”

People Giving Facts Stories Figures Throwing

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“There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.”

Ifs Emotion Audience Four Reader Mad Scared Glad

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“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.”

People Want Made Remember Scared Educate

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“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.”

People Thinking Stories Storyteller

Author:Larry Winget

“No matter what I'm talking about, I can involve you into the story where you think it's you doing it. You're living it. I can remind you of things that went on in your life so you go, man I had that happen to me. I've been there. I've done that.”

Thinking Men I Can Matter Done Stories Happens Talking No Matter What

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“People don't give a damn about you and they don't give a damn about your story and they don't give a damn about your content. They only give a damn that you, your content, your story can bring value to them.”

People Giving Stories Values Damn Don't Give A Damn

Author:Larry Winget

“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.”

Thinking Writing Long Book Bigs Trends Long Book

Author:Larry Winget

“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.”

People Thinking Writing Wells Said Book Focus Helpful

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“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.”

Information Who I Am Brands

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“I've been very, very successful at building probably the most recognizable, physically recognizable brand in personal development.”

Successful Building Development Personal Development Brands

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“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.”

People Want Said Wanted Personality Who I Am Brands Hiring

Author:Larry Winget

“If you're selling information - and I have a lot of friends who write a lot of bestselling books and they're selling information. They don't need to have a picture on the cover at all because they are not important. They're secondary to their information. To me, the information is secondary to me.”

Ifs Needs Writing Important Book Information Selling Lots Of Friends

Author:Larry Winget

“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.”

Book Hate Enemy Fans Something New Hate You

Author:Larry Winget

“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.”

Writing I Can Book Copies Writing A Book

Author:Larry Winget

“I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they've read.”

Thinking Book Mistake Written

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“I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Book Topics

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“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."”

People Knows Years Book Lasts Impossible Larry

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“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.”

Thinking Book Easy Impossible Damn Bookstores Easy To Get

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“You can't write a book and just expect it to sell itself, you know. We're not building that better mousetrap and waiting for the world to beat a path to our dear. You've got to build a market for your book.”

Knows World Writing Book Waiting Path Building Beats Sells Dear

Author:Larry Winget

“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.”

People Book Seems Mistake Fans Building Resources Following Release

Author:Larry Winget

“Work faster, smarter and harder”

Harder Faster Smarter

Book:It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

“Success comes from what you do, not from what you say you are going to do.”

Book:No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry Winget

Source: No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry Winget

“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.”

People Matter Done Activity Accomplishment

Book:It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

“If you're not booked, you're not any good!”

Author:Larry Winget

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

People Enjoy Principles

Book:It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

“The right thing to do usually comes straight from your gut. When you work fast, you tend to work more from the gut, because your mind simply doesn't have as much time to justify an easier way to do things.”

Way Mind Easier Things To Do Right Thing Guts Justify

Book:It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

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

Mean Results Environment Habit Sloppy Work Environment Disorganized Work Habits Workspace

Book:It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

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

People Different Pay Unique Scare Premium

Book:It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

“Branding is nothing but knowing who you are and what you do that makes you stand out from everyone else, then communicating that through your marketing efforts. Branding is discovering your uniqueness and learning to exploit it.”

Effort Knowing Who You Are Marketing Communicate Discovering Branding Uniqueness Standing Out Exploits Knowing Who You Are

Book:It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

“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.”

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

About the Author

Born: October 2, 1952
Known for: Author
Quotes: 88

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It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn FaultRelated source material

No Time for Tact: 365 Days of the Wit, Words, and Wisdom of Larry WingetRelated source material

Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better LifeRelated source material

The Idiot Factor: The 10 Ways We Sabotage Our Life, Money, and BusinessRelated source material

You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting AheadRelated source material

Your Kids Are Your Own Fault: A Guide For Raising Responsible, Productive AdultsRelated source material

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