Top 80 Larry Winget Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “There are four basic emotions – mad, sad, glad and scared. And if you touch those emotions then you can grab your audience, your reader.”

— Larry Winget

52. “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.”

— Larry Winget

53. “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.”

— Larry Winget

54. “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.”

— Larry Winget

55. “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.”

— Larry Winget

56. “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.”

— Larry Winget

57. “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.”

— Larry Winget

58. “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.”

— Larry Winget

59. “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.”

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

61. “You can’t have a bully without a victim.”

— Larry Winget

62. “Businesses get better only when the people in the business get better.”

— Larry Winget

63. “I’ve been very, very successful at building probably the most recognizable, physically recognizable brand in personal development.”

— Larry Winget

64. “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.”

— Larry Winget

65. “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.”

— Larry Winget

66. “If you’re not booked, you’re not any good!”

— Larry Winget

67. “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.”

— Larry Winget

68. “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.”

— Larry Winget

69. “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.”

— Larry Winget

70. “I think one of the mistakes typically with authors is they have written more books than they’ve read.”

— Larry Winget

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

— Larry Winget

72. “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.”

— Larry Winget

73. “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.”

— Larry Winget

74. “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.”

— Larry Winget

75. “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.”

— Larry Winget

76. “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.”

— Larry Winget

77. “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.”

— Larry Winget

78. “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.”

— Larry Winget

79. “The constant need to make everyone else happy at the cost of your own happiness will destroy you.”

— Larry Winget

80. “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

81. “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

82. “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

83. “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

84. “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

85. “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