Career Highlights
- Winget is a professional speaker, author and TV personality.
- He wrote the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers You're Broke Because You Want to Be and It's Called Work for a Reason!, and the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life.
- Winget is member of the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame.
- He hosts the A&E show Big Spender, which helps people with serious shopping and spending problems get on a budget.
- Winget has appeared on Fox News, Fox Business, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, CBS and the Today Show.
- His latest book, People are Idiots and I Can Prove It, gives advice on the dumb things people do to sabotage their success.
Larry Winget is dubbed “The Pitbull of Personal Development” because of his enthusiastic and blunt style of motivational speaking and writing. His two novels, You're Broke Because You Want to Be and It's Called Work for a Reason!, were on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal’s bestseller lists. His book, Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life was also featured as a Wall Street Journal’s bestseller as well as Businessweek’s bestseller list. Audiences would know him best from his show on A&E, “Big Spender”, which helps people with serious shopping and spending problems get on a budget. Mr. Winget has made notable appearances on Fox News, Fox Business, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC, CBS and the Today Show discussing topics such money, personal success and business. Having spoken to and audience of 400 of the Fortune 500 companies, he is a member of the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame. His latest book is, Your Kids Are Your Own Fault: A Guide For Raising Responsible, Productive Adults.
Our InterviewLarry Winget joins ThinkTalk host Zack Sherwood to discuss his most recent book “People are Idiots and I Can Prove It.” Winget offers practical applications of how to be successful, and defines what success is. Winget also lets us in on his writing process, and how he went from poor to rich to bankrupt and back to rich again.
