Larry Winget is a bestselling author, television personality, social commentator and internationally acclaimed speaker. His newest book, Grow A Pair: How To Stop Being a Victim and Take Back Your Life, Your Business and Your Sanity is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller. He has also written five additional New York Times/Wall Street Journal bestselling books that have been translated into over 20 languages including Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get A Life; You’re Broke Because You Want To Be; It’s Called Work For A Reason; People Are Idiots And I Can Prove It; and Your Kids Are Your Own Fault. Larry has starred in his own television series on A&E, two PBS specials and two CNBC specials. He has appeared on Dr. Phil, The Today Show, Tool Academy, The Big Idea, Larry King, and in three national television commercials. Larry is a regular contributor on many national television news shows on the topics of success, business, personal finance, and parenting. He is also a member of the Speaker Hall Of Fame and is the trademarked Pitbull of Personal Development®.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“One is always creating a client base and finding customers. I have no resistance to asking people to do business with me, I believe if I have a solution for their problem and I clearly communicate that solution and identify that they have a problem I think it is my obligation to ask people to buy for me. That’s one of the big problems most entrepreneurs have, they don’t understand the importance of selling and marketing to make sure they have a constant source of income. At the beginning it’s challenging, you’ve got to put yourself in front of customers to ask them to do business with you, that’s a challenge for everyone at the beginning”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- It’s Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success Is Your Own Damn Fault Book by Larry Winget
- Be the Best at What Matters Most: The Only Strategy You will Ever Need Book by Joe Calloway
- The Fred Factor: How Passion in Your Work and Life Can Turn the Ordinary into the Extraordinary Book by Mark Sanborn
- Make Change Work: Staying Nimble, Relevant, and Engaged in a World of Constant Change Book by Randy Pennington
- Create Distinction: What to Do When ”Great” Isn’t Good Enough to Grow Your Business Book by Scott McKain
Favourite Quote:
“What is easy to do, is just as easy not to do, that’s why people don’t do it” – Jim Rohn
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The News
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Get three sheets of paper, on the first write how your life, business, career, finances, relationships looks right now, on the second how you’d like it to look, on the third what you’ll give up to get there. Success is based on sacrifice; we have too many idiots out there telling you you can have it all, no you can’t you’re going to have to choose. It’s going to come down to what are you going to sacrifice. You don’t get more success, you give up what’s keeping you from being successful, you don’t get rich, you give up what’s making you broke, you don’t get skinny, you give up what’s making you fat, you don’t get happy you give up what’s making you unhappy. So what are you going to give up to get from where you are to where you want to be”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Mohamed El-Erian “Investors have to ask themselves two questions. How much can we grow our investments? And, can we afford our mistakes?”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Larry Winget:
- “Titles are the reasons people pick up your books”
- “If you put up with anything you endorse”
- “I get sick and tired about this happy huggy talk about what it takes to be in business”
- “I won’t do anything half-asssed, I’ll give it all I’ve got”
- “Success is the biggest enemy of success”
- “The best thing anybody can do is become intelligent about what you need to do to be in business”
- “It really amazes me that we have so many experts who have never actually been in business”
- “My business culture is the same as my personal culture”
- “I don’t want followers I want a dedicated fan base”
- “We have way too many people in this world who have sacrificed their sanity, sacrificed their family, sacrificed their personal life because some idiot out there has gone on the stage or written some stupid book that says if you want to be successful you have to be passionate about what you do, all those idiots who say love what you do and you’ll never work a day in your life, those people aren’t working very hard I’ll guarantee you because if you’re really working hard you don’t love it much of the time”
- “One of the mistakes people make becoming entrepreneurs is they want to make themselves and their business so easy for everybody to do business with, that’s wrong. You want to find a niche so when you do attract customers to you, you are their solution, and you can never be perfect for everybody”
- “There are 500 books about the secrets of customer service, well how about this, just be nice, 600 about the secrets of selling, how about this, just ask, 700 about the secrets of teambuilding. I mean really, we could go on and on and on about all the secrets people claim there are. There are no secrets, treat people well, find out what their problem is, solve their problem, charge a reasonable amount of money for it, understand you have to sell your business no matter what it is, and learn to business and life on less than you earn and you will be successful, that’s not a secret”
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