Larry Winget
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.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Motivational
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.Collection: Nice
Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.Collection: Action
Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.Collection: Get Better
Dreams don't come true. Plans come true!Collection: Dream
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: People
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.Collection: Reality
What you think about, talk about, and get off your ass and do something about, comes about.Collection: Thinking
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 allCollection: Hate
Be the person others can count on to get things doneCollection: Done
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.Collection: People
Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.Collection: Over You
Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrongCollection: Stress
Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.Collection: Responsibility
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.Collection: Inspirational
Work hard on your job and work harder on yourselfCollection: Jobs
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.Collection: Thinking
People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth does not care.Collection: Truth
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.Collection: Philosophy
If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Men
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.Collection: Fun
There are four basic emotions - mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.Collection: Mad
A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.Collection: Mean
Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.Collection: Problem
Businesses get better only when the people in the business get better.Collection: People
Clean up your own backyard. Change by example. Just be the way you want others to be and hope they pay attention.Collection: Example
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.Collection: Priorities
Don't be different. Different scares people. People won't spend their money on different. They will, however, pay a premium for unique.Collection: Unique
You can’t have a bully without a victim.Collection: Bully
What you think of me is none of my business.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Moving
Everything has a price, including both success and failure. Choose either one and be prepared to pay the price.Collection: Success
If you don't have much going wrong in your life, then you don't have much going on in your life.Collection: Ifs
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.Collection: Thinking
It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.Collection: People
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.Collection: 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.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Hate
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.Collection: Choices
Make yourself happy and surround yourself with people who are cool with that.Collection: People
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.Collection: Giving Up
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.Collection: Ideas
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.Collection: Book
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."Collection: Book
Love brings about passion and passion is always marketable.Collection: Passion
You can’t step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.Collection: Feet
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.Collection: Book