Larry Winget Quotes
Discover your uniqueness. Learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.
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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.
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Organizations that refuse to accept poor performance at any level and that take the time to deal with every slip in service do well regardless of economic conditions. They thrive in spite of it all just because they expect, demand, and deliver excellence at every level.
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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.
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If a person can't summarize his thoughts on success in business into a handful of bullet points, he doesn't know what he's talking about. And he's scamming you.
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Businesses get better only when the people in the business get better.
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Everything in your life gets better when you get better, and nothing is ever going to get better until you get better.
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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.
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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.
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It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.
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When you love your job, you will work on yourself so you will be better for your job. You will love it enough to be good at it. If you aren't doing that, you don't love your job at all; you love going to that place where you hang out and they pay you for it.
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Your future is up to you, not your employer. You have to get better in order for your circumstances to get better, and that must be done on your own time.
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If it's a good idea, do it today. Not tomorrow. A good idea rarely gets better over time.
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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.
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While your friends want you to be successful, they don't want you to be more successful than they are.
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A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.
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It is better to have a thief than a liar working for you, because at least you can watch a thief.
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Regardless of what the motivational speakers tell you, attitude is not everything, attitude is only one thing; sooner or later you have to get off your butt and go to work.
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Don't be different. Different scares people. People won't spend their money on different. They will, however, pay a premium for unique.
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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.
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I was convinced that in order to be successful I should do what everyone else was doing, but just be better at doing it. That is a clear formula for disaster in both my business and your business.
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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.
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If you can't explain what you do for a living in one sentence, then you don't know what you do for a living.
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Any company that requires constant supervision is not a well-trained, well-managed, well-led company.
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Firing is not something you do to someone: firing is something you do for someone.
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It's better to spend money on a really good attorney than a really bad employee. You're better off fighting them on the outside of your company than from inside your company.
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If you can get along with everyone and everyone loves you, then you don't stand for much. A person who stands his ground for his principles and won't compromise his integrity is not loved by everyone.
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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.
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The best advertising in the whole world is a satisfied customer with a big mouth.
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Selling the customer is serving the customer. When you have a product that helps customers, you owe it to customers to sell it to them. To not offer customers something that can genuinely serve them well is a lack of good service.
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People want to buy from salespeople who are successful. Since we gather information first and primarily by sight and then form our opinions in the same way, it is important to look successful.
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Ask more from your customers. Ask more from your employer. Ask more from your employees. But before you ask more from anyone else, first ask more from yourself.
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The very top salespeople in any industry don't waste their time going to networking meetings. They take the same amount of time and use it to stay in front of customers.
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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.
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The easiest customer to sell is the customer who is happy with what he just bought from you.
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When someone says, "I don't really like working with others," hire her and give her an office with a door and a lot of work to do and then watch it get done.
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Prove you are smarter than everyone by hiring people who are smarter than you.
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Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong.
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Training is expensive, but stupid employees are more expensive.
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The customers have the money. Give them what they want, and they will share it with you.
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Few people will turn to themselves to take responsibility for their results until they have exhausted all opportunities to blame someone else.
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Don't worry too much about making the right decision. Just make the decision, and then make the decision right.
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Pay your taxes first, yourself second, and everyone else after that.
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If it starts to become complicated, then stop, regroup, and start over. Success is always simple.
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Everything has a price, including both success and failure. Choose either one and be prepared to pay the price.
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Be trustworthy. Be the person who can keep a secret, isn't a gossip, and can be counted on in all situations.
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Your rewards in life are in direct proportion to the service you provide.
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Don't concern yourself with being liked. Instead, be respected.
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Reward life skills and personal growth. Good people do a good job and bad people do a bad job.
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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.
People change their lives when they want to, not because I want them to. No book ever changed a life and no speaker ever did, either. People have the power to change their own lives and no author or speaker should take the credit for it.
What you think about, talk about, and get off your ass and do something about is what comes about!
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The market pays money in exchange for expertise, time, and effort. Anyone unhappy with the exchange rate, has the ability to add more value in terms of expertise, time, or effort. It's a simple equation. The fact that you don't like it or agree with it doesn't matter and won't change the equation. Is it always fair? No. But is it always true? Always.
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