Sometimes I get such good email and blog postings that I just feel I must share them. This guy posted under the name of Noname. Funny name don’t you think? Never heard that one before. He posted it in response to my posting about when to put on long pants. I got a kick out of it and responded with a posting of my own. But I think all of you who work for a living and came up the hard way and have a lick of sense might enjoy his “holier than thou” approach to success. I couldn’t give a rat’s ass what he thinks of me since I have been putting up with pencil necks like him my whole life . . . as I am sure many of you have. Regardless, here is his letter and my response. Hope you enjoy it!
0. 14 Noname Says: ?July 5th, 2008 at 5:06 pm e
. I didn’t even know who this guy Larry Winget is. I just surfed into this website. And his attitude made me curious to find out more about him. It seems he thinks he is too intelligent, too sophisticated, too good.. Oh yeah? Where did you grow up Larry? In the south? Where did you go to school? Where did you go to college? Harvard? Princeton? Where did you go for graduate studies? What company did you start? Other than the “personal development” talk shows??Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. You seem to be teaching a lot of people how to do things, how to get better.. bla bla.. So you teach, huh?
. Get out there are try DOING something, like start a Google? or start an Apple? Or a Southwest? Or Ebay? What has this guy done????? Other than opening his mouth and talking?
. And he is oh so sophisticated to be commenting about etiquette… Hey may be you should move to NYC and attend some of the balls and dances, and then you might come across as sophisticated. May be you should stop shaving your head, and start shaving your chin, and put on white/blue shirts with dark suits. May be, just may be, then you’ll be on your way to sophistication.
. # 15 Larry Winget Says: ?July 6th, 2008 at 1:01 pm e
. Hey Noname…….
. Thanks for your comments. You know all about me from my website? Must be a better website than I thought. I really don’t claim to be “too intelligent, too sophisticated or too good.” In fact, in all of my books I point out what a bone-head I’ve been. And yes, I grew up in the South and I’m damn proud of it. Noname, you should spend a buck or two and read one of my books and you will know where I went to school, which companies I started and all the things you seem to think measure success. (By the way, I went to Northeastern Oklahoma State University with a double major in Psychology and Library Science. I missed Harvard and Princeton as I was working my way through college as a telephone operator in Muskogee, Oklahoma on the night shift.) Does it take starting a Google, or Southwest or Apple or Ebay to be successful? Guess I missed that measurement of success. ( I did start a little telecommunications company that was extremely successful. I then messed up and it went into bankruptcy taking me with it. I then started another one which did pretty well. I did some house-flipping, owned a cigar company, have owned a successful seminar company for twenty years and been a pretty successful entrepreneur on a few other ventures too. Admittedly all small potatoes compared to Google, Apple and Southwest but it did leave me a multi-millionaire so I’m not going to complain. By the way, I shop on Ebay a lot, does that count?) Most of the happy, successful, prosperous people I know are regular folks who decided to make something of their lives. The majority don’t have college degrees. The majority don’t attend balls and dances in New York City. The majority of millionaires I know don’t wear white/blue shirts and dark suits. Once you become as successful as you want to be, you can dress pretty much like you want to. You can even shave your head, grow a goatee and wear custom cowboy shirts and boots that cost more than most custom made suits. I’m not really interested in “coming across as sophisticated.” I’d rather come across as authentic. The people I know who try to come across as sophisticated usually end up looking pretty ridiculous so I’ll pass on that one. So Mr. Noname, your view of success is pretty narrow according to my terms and those of us who have busted our asses to make something of our lives. By the way: Sometimes, those who can, actually do. But almost always, those who can’t, end up writing anonymous critiques of those who are doing.
By the way, instead of attending balls, you should maybe get some balls and use your name when you write someone.
All the best to you and all your noname friends and family.
Larry
Larry,
As always rock on with your bad self. Proof of how stupid one can look if you do not do your homework first. My guess, your honestly hit them smack in the face and they did not like it that much.
~Tucker
Dear NoName: We do have balls in NYC, but not the kind you’re thinking of. More the kind you’re *lacking.* Oh, and your writing skills are appalling. It was very difficult to follow what you were saying with all the errors in spelling, grammar, punctuation, usage and sentence structure. Perhaps you should take your own advice, and getcha some book learnin’.
Larry,
Your restraint is commendable and impressive. I particularly your comment on authenticity. I’ve never met an authentic person who was unhappy.
Keep up the good work!
I think it is funny that NoName seems to think he knows you. I also am pretty disgusted by the “those who can do, those who can’t teach.” I know firsthand that syaing is not true. I do find it very interesting that it seems that many “teachers” have failed BIG TIME went into bankruptcy, the went on to be a success and TRIED TO HELP OTHERS FROM FAILING. You folks have powerful messages and really mentor the public. We need more like you. Oh maybe ironic, but those of you who “Can Do and Teach” are never afraid to admit your failures… that proves that you have the gall and big balls to teach and mentor. Now it is time for me to go buy your book… and read it.
PS: love your website. You have balls
Larry:
Wow – great response! I second the praise from Alan about your restraint.
As a professional speaking colleague, I always find it hysterical when people say, “besides the speaking business, what REAL work have you done?” Are they crazy? The speaking and seminar business that Larry has been at the TOP of for 20+ years is one of the hardest damn businesses to STAY in and SUCCEED at.
I’d come back to the folks who brag about building a plumbing business or a successful restaurant and ask them, “Yeah, this is great – but I wonder how you’d do in the SPEAKING business!!” As one of our National Speakers Association colleagues said, “This is an easy business to get into, and a very hard business to STAY in.”
The fact that Larry has had that kind of staying power AND success WITH authenticity is a pretty damn good definition of “making it” in my book.
Rock on Larry!
So this noname guy aparently thought you were presumptive and condescending and wrote a presumptive and condescending reply as a rebuttal? How does that make sense?
Larry, there need to be more people like you who don’t allow our passive-aggressive, confrontation-avoiding society to stop them from telling people that they are ruining it for themselves and those around them. Keep up the great work.
It’s a shame that there are still people out there who measure the meaning of success through things that are so trivial. What you wear, what school you go to, which town you live in, who you know, etc. From my personal life experience, the only type of people who like to trash on others are the one who is very insecure about themselves. They feel better about themselves by making others look bad.
Noname, if you are reading this, go get a life and mind your own business. If you can’t handle what Larry has to say and teach us, no one ask you to keep reading it. He is at where he is at because he’s doing something right. Result is everything. All you’ve got is a shit load of BS that no one gives a shit about. Read this book that might help you, “Shut up, stop whinning, and get a life”. You will find that very helpful.
Dear NoName
You could have just as easily signed it Mr. Poop for Brains. Larry is down to earth, tells it like it is and is a realist. If there were far more like him our country wouldn’t be in the mess it’s in. I just spent 12-days in a tour bus with 42 events along a 4,000 mile journey, home for the 4th, gone for 2 days, home for 2 days and next week I will spend 3 very hot days in New Mexico on a gig that will leave me exhausted. After that instead of running home to rest I’m flying to Phoenix so I can attend the PBS event and hear Larry in person and I can assure you it will be worth every minute of it. Perhaps you should read Larry’s fantastic books, watch his DVD’s as I am sure your will quickly realize what a fool you made yourself out to be plus you will learn alot in the process.
Larry great response you gave ole poop for brains and I am most anxious to see you in Phoenix.
Obviously, Noname has a problem with what people do for a living that are not in his perceived realm of thinking. My suggestion is to appreciate what others do for a living. You’ll get a lot further and won’t come across sounding like an idiot. Google etc.? Sure they are to be honored for what they are doing. What Noname doesn’t realize is professional speakers are not only on stage motivating and inspiring the next Google like companies. Many are ADVISORS and COACHES to these entrepreneurs and executives. Noname everyone is part of the largest team – people. So that includes you and we all do our part. I can tell you without the motivational and inspirational speakers there would be more chaos. We make lives better and create positive change therefore we make money as a by product of our work. I do like that you made your voice heard. That’s commendable. However, by stepping back and taking another look you’ll put yourself in the right mindset. When someone comes to you and tells you you empowered, bettered, changed, and/or saved their BUSINESS and LIFE ask your favorite companies what they have done. I hope you’ll agree I’ve put you in the right mindset. That’s part of my job. Be A Hero!
Someone who supposedly is soooo educated let me give you a word of advice ….Know your subject before responding DO YOUR RESEARCH!!!!
Hello Larry
You are my kind of person!! You staright to the point,no frills,no BS just to the point. I have read all your books more than once. Very informative and very funny. I would love to site down and talk to you one on one. if you are evry in the mood for a free lunch or dinner let me know.
GREAT JOB!!!!!!! KEEP IT GOING!!!!!!!!!!
THANKS-KELLY
I’ve never known anyone who was highly successful that had not worked very hard. While what many people do seem very easy, what most people fail to see or think about is the years of work that went into becoming successful. Take Tiger Woods for instant. He sure makes it look easy. But people fail to realize that he started swinging a golf club at the age of 4 and has devoted a life time to perfecting his game. He doesn’t just “play” a few weekends a year and make millions. He works constantly at improving his game.
Teaching – effective teaching – that changes lives is probably the most challenging work there is. That is why it is rewarded so generously.
And I do hate people that do not have the courage to stand behind what they say. They must not really believe it.
Larry,
Like you’ve said before: “People are Idiots”… and you just proved it.
JA
GO LARRY!! – Enough said.
ROTFLMAO!
Thanks, Larry for the much needed laugh this morning. . .
You could have added that he REALLY needs to “Shut Up, Stop Whining and Get a Life”.
Larry, I want to comment about “opening mouth and talking”. Talking is hard work! we entertain thousands of people a year on our ghost tours. we talk until our voices are hoarse. We schedule tours, promote tours and talk talk talk! Giving speeches, no matter how well rehearsed and prepared, generates a bit of anxiety before every audience. It is the nature of the beast. So, I was a somewhat astounded that a guy like noname would denigrate the fine art and skill of public speaking; of communicating. Obviously he has not done much in the way of pleasing a crowd.
Uh-oh……..somebody (aka Noname) doesn’t feel too good about him/herself. It is quite obvious they have adopted a poor and negative attitude which leads me to believe they have low self esteem. This may be why they felt the need to “trash” Larry’s comments. Unfortunately, people like Noname are usually not very successful in life because they refuse to be positive and learn from others. Their poor attitude keeps people away that might otherwise want to “help” them become successful. Hey, where and when is the ball, I need a dress!!!!!!!!!!!
A lady I know once told me that every job/work has to be done by someone so never look down on anyone for their work.
Wise words.
Larry,keep up the great work you do and may be just may be(gettit) you will go far,
love your books
Thank you for the laugh.
Love your work and you are a major influence not only my life but also on my 16 year old son and his friends (and it’s not an easy task to impress teenagers). I’ve passed all your books on to him and his friends all of whom are making changes in thier lives (all for the better) due to your influence.
As for Noname’s “idea” that you lack something, well I have to agree what you lack is the typical feel good let me make it easy for you and feed you a load of BS line that a lot of the world seems to think is “appropriate”. Do you always make me comfortable when I read your books nope but you always make me think and I have never failed to walk away without making changes in my life for the better.
Keep up the good work and keep doing it “real”
Cherrie
Larry,
My guess is that we have similar attitudes to ‘nonames’. Those individuals with a huge need for approval and can’t really feel good about themselves unless they are taking shots at someone else. Obviously this is someone that suffers from endorectalcephalosis. Keep on keeping on.
Noname questions. 1. What best selling books have you written? 2. What TV shows have you been on, which one were you the star? 3. Since you seem to enjoy speaking out are you a Hall of Fame professional speaker? 4. Any accomplishments close to these? …..Maybe noname should shut up, quit whining and get a life, along with the upside down t shirt. Noname is proof of the theory that the human mind has limitations.
Hi !
Quick message to ‘noname’ — Actually I dont feel hatred towards you, only pity!
There are loads of good books and great authors that will get your attitude right. Read everything you can from Larry Winget, Randy Gage, Dr Joe Vitale and trust me you will start thinking straight.
Dont worry that you have an attitude that leaves a lot to desire – there is still hope for the likes of you ONLY if you can get books by above authors, read it and for heavens sake apply it to your life.
If you don’t do so, then you have a right to remain an IDIOT ( but take it from me you will love yourself when you change your attitude and thinking aided from these books)
To start with, as a matter of priority, even if it means missing a meal or 2 or a haircut, run my boy to the nearest bookstore and get ‘ Shut up, Stop Whinning and Get a Life’ by none other than Larry Winget.
IF you dont pay heed, please wear a tag PERMANENTLY saying ‘I want to remian a bum so keep off me”
Yep…… another idiot. I’ve had my own idiot moments, but this guy??? Makes me feel a whole lot better about myself!!
As always Larry – YOU ROCK!
Larry – your books have been a real inspiration to me and have helped knock a lot of sense into my head. With you help I have made a big change in paying off debt and taking responsibility. Thanks!
I just read that book you wrote with Ian Percy – very good.
Percy is a little too corporate for me, though – it gets in the way of the message.
How about a Winget makeover on Percy?
Step One:
Take away his shiny conservative corporate wingtips and silk socks fit him out with some of those sharp cowboy boots.
Step Two:
I don’t trust businessmen in expensive suits who tell me what to do with money. If you were not on that book cover, I wouldn’t have read it.
Make him take off the fancy pinstriped suit and the silk necktie and the white shirt and the cufflinks and get him into a Hawaain shirt and some jeans. Then when he isn’t looking, donate all those dapper suits and shoes and ties to a homeless shelter. That white-collar exec look is too high and mighty for the average Joe like me!
Step Three:
Shave his head (he might not like that because he has a lot of hair) That executive haircut has to go.
Step Four:
Steal his razor so that he has to grow a goatee!
Step Five:
Give him a couple of tattoos. Then there’s no going back! He can’t put the suit back on if he has a tattoo!
After that – the two of you will be a team and there will be no stopping you!
Jimmy
Larry,
I think your awesome. Your book “It’s Called Work for a Reason” Loved it. Could not put it down till I finished. I will and have been spreading the news about this book, and plan to read more of your work.
Sounds like NO NAME- has personal issues. NO-NAME sounds to be jealous of you. Jealousy is a sickness we can pray for NO-NAME 🙂
Loved your come back to his un-educated commits, that is what makes you so great, your brutally honest and no BS. Need more people in this world like you. Keep up the Great Work. Good Luck to you and your family!
Larry,
Are we sure noname is male? I know a couple women – and some guys who are capable of saying something similar. They all think very highly of themselves – but prefer hiding who they really are. Trust me, none of the ones I know are successful by any stretch of the imagination – actually they tend towards the opposite extreme.
I love your authenticity and your books. Keep up the great work!
hello larry. i just surfed onto your website too. i felt inclined to leave a comment because i just recently got a few similar ones!!! it’s so funny and they really make me laugh. i have only recently began actively blogging on my own domain, and before that it was just a small blog on blogspot. and in the last couple of months since i’ve moved, i’ve received 4 emails and a couple of “hate comments” of that similar nature.
they say i claim to be such an amazing designer and where are my clothes, they’ve never heard of me, i just name-drop, i’m a nobody, you get the idea. i think it’s hilarious because the only “name i drop” is of pat field and it’s only because i work for her, and it’s a personal blog so if i don’t talk about my personal life i don’t know what else i can blog about. and i’ve never claimed to be a great designer either.
i think people like that are just jealous and they probably feel crappy about their crappy lives so they want to leave a trail of long hateful comments hoping to make your life crappy too. but really, i’ve just laughed it off so far because i don’t need all that. i’m happy with who i am and what i’ve achieved and am achieving, however small of an accomplishment it is!
sorry for such a long comment… i’m thinking now i’d better come up with a commenting policy on my blog! 🙂
by the way, i had to add. i think it’s stupid that some people still measure success by such material terms and by what kind of school you go to. i am going to a good school now but honestly i’m scoffing at it. my dad had to quit school at 16 because he was the only boy in his family and my grandfather died when my dad was 11, and left them with hardly any money. so my dad quite school to work and support my grandma and my aunts. he made all his wealth even though he had close to nothing education, and has provided my siblings and i with the kind of life that he never got to lead when he was growing up. i respect him and love my parents dearly, and that, i think, is success.
Frankly, people who put on an air of having graduated from Princeton are the very people I would trust the least to tell me how to run my life or how to achieve success. I can’t fit in that mold nor do I want to. And if you want to do an Oklahoma-style public personality with boots and western shirts instead of an east coast banker style, why not?
The only style I can’t stomach is the fake one of TV ads where the guy is sitting in front of his boat wearing shorts and an Hawaiian shirt and there are a bunch of girls in bikinis around–which is supposed to prove that his real estate system has made him a millionaire and will make me one, too. In this case, I think that if it was such a great system he would just keep making money using it instead of trying to sell it to me. And thus a situation of “those who can, do.”
But I don’t count you among such con artists, Larry. You’re honest about wanting to make money doing what you do; you don’t claim this is charity that you are giving us. And you’re not trying to get us to buy your “system” but to act with some basic common sense and work hard to achieve what we want. Which is darn good advice.
I like that you don’t take the attitude of being above responding to idiots on this blog. I like your combativeness.
I am a strong believer in personal responsibility. With that said, Larry you are the man!! I believe that no name is personally responsible for the decay of real American values. Apparently he has bought into the lie that says there is ONLY one way to get anything done.
The most appalling thing was what he said about what it meant if you were a teacher. I think he is one of those people who spent lots of time and energy to acquire a degree only to find out that it is just a piece of paper. It does help, but here in the great, great land of America it isn’t what defines success. Now his resentment guides him. No name also has NO CONFIDENCE!
It’s too bad that NoName is so out of touch with real Americans and their thoughts and their needs. I was born in the South, of southern parents, and moved to Conecticut while in my teens where I found the snobbery so prevalent in and north of New York City. And I have also lived in Alaska and visited all but eleven of our fifty states. And, Europe, too. But I’ve moved back to the South, where I have found wonderful people working to help wonderful people. I generally don’t attend balls and I don’t feel a need to apologize for what I have achieved or done or not done. But I will say that I like what you say, Larry, and hope you’ll keep doing it. And if Mr. NoName really believed what he is saying, then he should have the balls to put his name to it. Otherwise, it just doesn’t amount to a hill of beans.