Top 80 Larry Winget Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Work faster, smarter and harder.”

— Larry Winget

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2. “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.”

— Larry Winget

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3. “What you think of me is none of my business.”

— Larry Winget

4. “Reward the behavior you want repeated.”

— Larry Winget

5. “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.”

— Larry Winget

6. “Work hard on your job and work harder on yourself.”

— Larry Winget

7. “You can’t step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.”

— Larry Winget

8. “People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth does not care.”

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

11. “Dreams don’t come true. Plans come true!”

— Larry Winget

12. “Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong.”

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

15. “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.”

— Larry Winget

16. “Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results – no one else.”

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

19. “Be the person others can count on to get things done.”

— Larry Winget

20. “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.”

— Larry Winget

21. “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.”

— Larry Winget

22. “Never build yourself up by tearing another down.”

— Larry Winget

23. “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.”

— Larry Winget

24. “Do what you said you would do, when you said you would do it, the way you said you would do it.”

— Larry Winget

25. “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

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

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

28. “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

29. “If it’s a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.”

— Larry Winget

30. “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.”

— Larry Winget

31. “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

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

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

34. “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.”

— Larry Winget

35. “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.”

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

39. “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.”

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

41. “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.”

— Larry Winget

42. “The title’s more important than the book.”

— Larry Winget

43. “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.”

— Larry Winget

44. “Your time, energy, and money always go to what’s important to you.”

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

47. “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.”

— Larry Winget

48. “Your situation will improve right after YOU improve.”

— Larry Winget

49. “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.”

— Larry Winget

50. “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.”

— Larry Winget