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Larry Weidel

Author of Serial Winner, Sales Executive & Investor
Palm Beach, FL & Aspen, CO
Larry Weidel
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About Larry Weidel

Sales LeadershipTeam BuildingFinancial ServicesAccountability SystemsHigh Performance

Larry Weidel is a sales executive, investor, and business advisor with billions of dollars in assets under management behind him. He is the bestselling author of Serial Winner (Greenleaf, 2015) and host of the Million Dollar Mastermind Podcast. Each year he helps thousands of people reach business, career, and financial goals, and he builds teams that consistently outperform. His work has been featured in Forbes, Inc., Fast Company, The Globe and Mail, Investor's Business Daily, and by the American Management Association.

In the mid-1970s, a few years out of Georgia Tech, Larry was supervising for a real estate construction company in Atlanta when the oil embargo gutted the business. He lost the job and took unemployment checks and food stamps to feed his young family. He refused to grab the first thing available. In 1975 he found what he was waiting for — a chance to help build A.L. Williams, now Primerica. There he learned the fundamentals of winning from mentors including Yankees legend Robert "Bullet Bob" Turley and founder Art Williams.

Larry followed his cousin H. Edward Roberts — inventor of the first commercially available desktop computer — in staying fresh by chasing natural curiosity. He plays guitar, banjo, and drums, skis, golfs, hunts, and works as a professional artist and photographer. He splits his time between Palm Beach and Aspen. On The Daily Mastermind, he joined George Wright III for a conversation on how serial winners think, execute, and keep winning for decades — intent, practice, environment, accountability, and the personal foundation underneath all of it.

Key Insights

Key takeaways from Larry

01
Repetition without intent is just time spent.
If your last thousand reps aren't better than your first thousand, you wasted the hours. Serious people ask better questions from the first swing, get the right equipment, and study not only what top performers do but what they think.
02
Success becomes accidental when the system isn't built for it.
Most careers run in short disconnected bursts — "stab, stab, stab," as Larry puts it — and companies splinter into fiefdoms where people protect turf instead of producing. Without structure, winning is occasional, like winning the lottery.
03
The confidence that counts comes from accomplishment.
Belief transfers when you spend time around people already producing. Subjects that are ordinary to them are revolutionary to you. Larry's caution: most self-improvement junkies stall out in free content and never get skin in the game.
04
A win only counts when you write it down.
In Larry's training center, Monday starts with a one-hour call and members post one big win to a shared scoreboard by week's end. It doesn't have to impress anyone else. Repeated weekly, the compounding can compress years of growth into one.
05
Don't build a tall tower without a foundation.
One towering skill can generate money while health, relationships, and spiritual life get neglected. Decide early that you're going to be successful without wrecking your life — you don't put up a skyscraper on nothing.