Larry Winget > Quotes

“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”
― Larry Winget

“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.”
― Larry Winget, It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault

“People hate the truth.
Luckily, the truth does not care.”
― Larry Winget

“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.”
― Larry Winget

“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.”
― Larry Winget, It's Called Work For a Reason

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

“The fact that you don’t have any money is a result of all your other problems. You have thinking problems. Attitude problems. Self-esteem problems. You are lazy. You lack discipline. You lack goals. Your priorities are out of whack.

Your biggest problem is not in your wallet or your bank account. Your biggest problem is between your ears. You will fix your money problems when you fix your other problems.”
― Larry Winget, You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead

“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.”
― Larry Winget, Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life: A Kick-Butt Approach to a Better Life

“Make yourself happy and surround yourself with people who are cool with that.”
― Larry Winget, Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity

“Success comes from what you do, not from what you say you are going to do.”
― Larry Winget, Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity

“The constant need to make everyone else happy at the cost of your own happiness will destroy you.”
― Larry Winget, Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity

“No one ever wrote down a plan to be fat, broke, stupid, lazy, unhappy, and mediocre. Those are the things that happen to you when you don’t have a plan.”
― Larry Winget, Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity

“Get in control. Live your life the way you want to live it. Don't have the money to do that? Remind yourself that your condition is your own damn fault and then commit and constantly recommit yourself to having the money to live any way you want to live.”
― Larry Winget

“If you are a good person who does good things when you have only a little, then you will be a good person who does even more good things when you have a lot.”
― Larry Winget, You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead

“Do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it, the way you said you would do it.”
― Larry Winget, Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity

“Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.”
― Larry Winget, Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity

“People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth doesn't care.”
― Larry Winget

“Growing a pair is a state of mind, an attitude, and a way of thinking. It’s about giving up being a victim and taking control of your life at every level. It is the willingness to do the right thing even when everyone else is doing the wrong thing.”
― Larry Winget, Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity

“Your time, energy, and money always go to what’s important to you.”
― Larry Winget, Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity

“What it takes that most people aren't willing to give is work. Hard work. Work on yourself, work on your life, and working while you are at work.”
― Larry Winget, You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead

“You can’t step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.”
― Larry Winget, Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity

“Anger can be a very healthy emotion when used to motivate yourself into positive action. Get angry and fight back. Yep, I said fight. You are in a battle. You need to steel your confidence with anger. Be angry that you messed up. Be angry that you didn't keep your word. Get mad at yourself for all your mistakes. Get sad, get mad, and then get on with it.”
― Larry Winget, You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead

“Your situation will improve right after YOU improve.”
― Larry Winget, You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead

“I made a deal that I would spend money on only one thing: getting smarter. I bought books. I would skip a meal and skip watching television, but I wouldn't skip an investment in my brain.”
― Larry Winget, You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead

“Larry’s short list for doing better: Stop complaining about your results. (No one really cares, anyway.) Whining about the problem only prolongs the problem. Take a realistic look at your results and think about what you have done or not done in the past that contributed to them. Go to the closest mirror, look yourself in the eye, and say, “This is all my fault.” Take responsibility. Do a reality check and admit that change has been going on for a good long while and you survived. You will survive this, too. Make a list of what you are going to do differently in the future to change your results. Doing better is the result of deciding to do better and then taking action on that decision. Get”
― Larry Winget, It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault

“That's your problem! No list. We are going to fix that now. Make a list of what is important to you. Write down everything that really matters to you.”
― Larry Winget, You're Broke Because You Want to Be: How to Stop Getting By and Start Getting Ahead

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

“It’s about knowing yourself, knowing your values, and becoming uncompromising in your willingness to do whatever it takes to stand up for them.”
― Larry Winget, Grow a Pair: How to Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business, and Your Sanity

“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.”
― Larry Winget, It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault

“What you tolerate is what you endorse.”
― Larry Winget