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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

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Larry Winget
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 2
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Motivational Speaker
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Muskogee
Oklahoma
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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.
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You can’t have a bully without a victim.
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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.
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People hate the truth. Luckily, the truth does not care.
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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.
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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.
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I'm not so good at just throwing out facts and figures and education and all that. I tell stories to captivate, that give people... that touch people emotionally.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If you're not booked, you're not any good!
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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.
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Reward the behavior you want repeated.
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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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Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.
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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.
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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.
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I looked at the fact that people were in such financial trouble I said well people are broke because they want to be.
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If you don't have much going wrong in your life, then you don't have much going on in your life.
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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.
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