Larry Winget quotes:

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.

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

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.

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.

Dreams don't come true. Plans come true!

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.

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.

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

Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.

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.

Be the kind of person others admire, can count on, trust, and enjoy spending time with. After you have developed that reputation, people will start to ask you what you do and you will be amazed at how many people will want to work with you. You will attract others based on your character.

What you think of me is none of my business.

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.

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

Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.

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

Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.

Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

All talk is just that: talk. All the words written on these pages are just that: words. If you want things to get better, take action. Don't just talk about it. Don't just read and think about it. Do it.

Be authentic. Don't try to be someone you aren't. You'll hate yourself for it & the effort to maintain the facade will exhaust you. BE REAL! Many won't like the real you but that's better than having people adore the person that isn't you at all

Be the person others can count on to get things done

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.

Donâ??t measure busywork. Donâ??t measure activity. Measure accomplishment. It doesnâ??t matter what people do as much as it matters what they get done.

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

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 have discovered there are only a handful of good ideas in the whole world. You already know them. You have heard them your entire life. Here are some of the main keys to being more successful: Take personal responsibility. Things change, so be flexible. Work smart and work hard. Serve others well. Be nice to others. Be optimistic. Have goals; want something big for yourself. Stay focused. Keep learning. Become excellent at what you do. Trust your gut. When in doubt, take action. Earn all you can. Save all you can. Give all you can. Enjoy all you've got. Above all keep it simple.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.

If life is no fun, it is because you are no fun. Your life is always a reflection of who you are... Try this: Stop taking things, including yourself, so seriously. Life is not as complicated as you have made it out to be.

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

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

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.

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

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'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.

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

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."

Learn what you are good at and exploit it in service to others.

Love brings about passion and passion is always marketable.

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.

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.

Never build yourself up by tearing another down.

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.

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 hate the truth. Luckily, the truth does not care.

Reward the behavior you want repeated.

Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong

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

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.

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.

The title's more important than the book.

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.

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

There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating.

What you think about, talk about, and get off your ass and do something about, comes about.

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.

When you miss the target, never in history has it been the target's fault. Ya gotta take responsibility!

Work faster, smarter and harder

Work hard on your job and work harder on yourself

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.

You canâ??t have a bully without a victim.

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.

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.

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.

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.