Larry Winget - It's Called Work For a Reason! (2006)

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Stress comes from knowing what is right and doing what is wrong

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It is a solid business principle that people who enjoy what they do are better at what they do.

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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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A disorganized workspace means disorganized work habits. A sloppy work environment equals sloppy results.

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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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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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The world, and therefore the workplace, is full of idiots. And the reality of life is that when you get rid of one idiot, another will show up to take his place. It's the curse of humanity.

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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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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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Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.

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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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Businesses get better only when the people in the business get better.

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Discover your uniqueness and learn to exploit it in the service of others, and you are guaranteed success, happiness, and prosperity.

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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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