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Wayne Garrett - Paint By Numbers
Snow Garrett Wealth Management
Hometown: Weatherford (born in Anson, Texas)
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ayne Garrett always knew what he wanted to be
when he grew up.
“I knew that I did not want to work for the other
person,” he said. “I remember in high school I was always
thinking, ‘What can I do where I don’t have to work for
somebody all my life?’”
Right after college he went to work for a mega
accounting firm.
“After a few months I knew that’s not where I wanted
to be the rest of my life,” he said. “I like being able to map
my own destiny. So we came to Weatherford. We had no
clients. We are both from here.”
When Garrett mentions, “we,” he’s including his wife,
Sharon. Both of them grew up in Parker County.
“A lot of people were waiting to see if we would stay,”
Garrett said. “One professional told me, ’You need to go
back to Fort Worth. We don’t need anymore accountants
here.’”
That remark served as a great motivator to Garrett.
“It made me more determined. I kept thinking, ‘I’ll
show you.’” And, of course, he did.
Garrett built his practice one relationship at a time.
The clients were loyal and with few exceptions,
they’ve stayed with him through the years.
Today, Garrett is one of those rare people that seem
to have no enemies. Like Sarah Lee, nobody doesn’t like
Wayne Garrett.
Is there a secret behind his way with people?
“You have to get up every day, determined that some-
body’s day is going to be better because they worked
with you,” Garrett said. “Because you’re making a differ-
ence in their lives. It’s more than just the numbers and
it’s more than the return. You’re touching someone’s life.
I want them to say, ‘I’m glad I saw that guy’ or ‘He really
did something good for me,’ or even just, ‘He truly cares
about me.’ I think that that’s a really, really big deal.”
Garrett is a partner of Snow Garrett Williams CPA’s,
CEO of Snow Garrett Wealth Management, and he’s presi-
dent of Garrett Wealth Advisory Group and PGA Financial
in Fort Worth.
“I started to work in 1976, and I joined Gary Snow in
January of 1980,” Garrett said. “I guess you could say that
we started our careers together.”
A few years later, Kathy Williams joined as the firm’s
third partner.
Garrett’s clients tend to be intensely loyal to him.
“There’s people out there who are not loyal to
anybody,” he said. “But there are a lot of really, really
loyal people out there. I try to find out who they are and
work with them.”
Garrett makes no qualms about it. He loves, loves