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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Larry Winget: “You are Expense. I am Revenue.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Entrepreneurship, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Business

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Larry Winget delivers a hilarious, no-nonsense lesson on customer service, personal responsibility, and common sense. Through stories about cheeseburgers, Sonic Drive-In, rude clerks, and “company policy,” he shows why flexibility beats rules, customers always vote with their money, and service businesses live or die by how they treat people.


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0:00.0

My place in tech changes every day, but I don't fear the future, because I'm with the leader, Pluralsight.

0:08.7

Their online learning platform has the hands-on expert-led courses I need to master new tech skills and create bigger impacts.

0:17.5

So I can learn quickly and stay ahead.

0:21.0

With Pluralsight, I don't fear what's next.

0:24.0

I embrace it.

0:25.6

Tap in at Pluralsight.com and see for yourself.

0:30.2

We meet in the house at night.

0:32.0

It's always the very same discussion.

0:33.7

I say, well, what are we going to eat tonight?

0:35.3

Shell says, I don't care as long as it's expensive.

0:41.3

So we go to the airport for sand whips. Laughter Welcome back to the quote of the day show.

1:06.1

I am your host, Sean Croxton of Sean Croxon.

1:09.9

We're going to kick off this week on the funny tip

1:12.3

with Larry Wingett. I hope this talk makes you smile, makes you laugh. And today's quote is this,

1:19.0

our feature quote is this. You are expense. I am revenue. And over the years, I've gone on

1:26.5

quite a few rants about customer service. I'm not going to do it today. In a nutshell, customer service is generally really bad these days. Employees look like they don't even want to be there. Cacheers look depressed. I got a story about that in a second. And sometimes they don't even say hi. I was at Target the other day.

1:44.5

Actually, you know what?

1:45.2

First, let me give you the point of the entire talk.

1:48.7

The point here is that customers vote with their money.

1:52.8

If no one is giving you money, the customer is not the problem.

1:57.8

The problem is likely in your service, right?

2:01.6

Customers talk, customers remember.

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