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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.

Larry Winget

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Larry Winget
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: October 2
Author
Motivational Speaker
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Muskogee
Oklahoma
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Learn what you are good at and exploit it in service to others.
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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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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.
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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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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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When you miss the target, never in history has it been the target's fault. Ya gotta take responsibility!
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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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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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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.
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Make yourself happy and surround yourself with people who are cool with that.
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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.
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You can’t step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.
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If life is no fun, it is because you are no fun. Your life is always a reflection of who you are... Try this: Stop taking things, including yourself, so seriously. Life is not as complicated as you have made it out to be.
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Find a problem that you can provide a solution to.
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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.
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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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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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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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Your thoughts, your words, and your actions created the life you are living. You create your results—no one else.
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If you're not booked, you're not any good!
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