Quotes from Larry Winget

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Love brings about passion and passion is always marketable.

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.

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

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.

Reward the behavior you want repeated.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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