Richie Norton Quotes & Sayings

Follow your passion and learn how to make money at it. Or don't follow your passion and learn to make money at that. They are the same. It's a choice. — Richie Norton

Jack of all trades or master of one? If you're a master of one, you'll soon be a master of none. Times are a changin. Be a jack of all trades. Or better, master of many! — Richie Norton

If only 1 out of 10 businesses succeeds, start 10 businesses. Just sayin. — Richie Norton

You can't let fear and indecision sink your creativity
they do not easily release their hold. — Richie Norton

Dreams come true when you live life awake. — Richie Norton

To make money you have to use a four letter word: SELL. — Richie Norton

Peace of mind is a person you can trust. Happiness is being trustworthy. — Richie Norton

If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations. — Richie Norton

What are you will to sacrifice for success? Whatever it is, don't sacrifice your values, your morals, your principles. Not worth it. — Richie Norton

How much longer will you wait until you take a chance on yourself? — Richie Norton

Attempting to succeed without embracing the tools immediately available for your success is no less absurd than trying to row a boat by drawing only your hands through the water or trying to unscrew a screw using nothing more than your fingernail. — Richie Norton

Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy. — Richie Norton

If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on. — Richie Norton

A principle is not merely a fundamental truth, but principles must serve as the very first source of every decision we make along the road to success. — Richie Norton

Work-Life Freedom Work-Life Balance — Richie Norton

If you think it's funny to make fun of the "used car salesman," you better only buy new and never sell your car. Just sayin. — Richie Norton

Every post is a digital tattoo of your personal brand.

Every post you make is a marketing piece.

Whether you realize it or not and regardless of having something for sale.

Every post is a digital tattoo of your personal brand. — Richie Norton

Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay. — Richie Norton

Happiness being surrounded by good friends and family at a BBQ. — Richie Norton

Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. — Richie Norton

Dear Influencers: Trolls will lurk under the bridges you build to gobble you up. They are hangry for attention. Build bridges anyways. — Richie Norton

At the end of the day, if you have a great product and service paired with the wrong pricing strategy / business model, you don't have a business. — Richie Norton

Wantrepreneur: "I'll do it later."

Entrepreneur: Today IS later. — Richie Norton

Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER. — Richie Norton

It's not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it's the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat. — Richie Norton

Do you ever see someone doing something cool and you say to yourself, "I could do that" ... And then you don't? Ask yourself, why not? Honestly, why not? You really may not have a reason to do it, but if you'd regret not doing it? That's a whole other story. — Richie Norton

If you're in business, all the content in the world will do you no good unless it leads to a sale. — Richie Norton

Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience. — Richie Norton

START: Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive, Trust — Richie Norton

People with money tend to buy more things instead of experiences...because they don't have time. — Richie Norton

Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing. — Richie Norton

Are you setting business goals? Try this:

Step 1: Add a "0" to your revenue goal.
Step 2: Take away a "0" from your expense goal.
Step 3: Let your mind go to work.

Thank me later. — Richie Norton

Just because you work, doesn't mean you're working on the right thing. — Richie Norton

It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself. — Richie Norton

Share your success stories with others. Don't brag, but don't hide your light. People want (and need) to be inspired and instructed. I know I want to follow and learn from successful people. Isn't that the basis for every business and self-help book? People will also give you good ideas to build on your own wins when you share openly. And when you write out your wins to an audience, your own ideas start to grow within you. Will you try? What's a win you've had lately? Don't be shy about it. — Richie Norton

Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you. — Richie Norton

Trust. And be trusted. — Richie Norton

The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic happen. — Richie Norton

What does a ship absolutely need to stay afloat? I'm not a mariner, so I can't exactly say. . . but what I can tell you is that ships don't absolutely need lighthouses - but they sure do help!

When it comes to acting on inspired ideas, it's easy to trick ourselves into thinking we don't really need to do them, but that's like a ship ignoring the beacon of light on a rocky shore. — Richie Norton

Some people say they have 20 years experience, when in reality, they have 1 year's experience repeated 20 times. (Stephen M R Covey to Richie Norton when Norton asked if he was too young to train older executives for Covey.) — Richie Norton

Better to teach a man to fish who already loves to fish. — Richie Norton

Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center. — Richie Norton

Whatever you do, don't wait to start those dreams. — Richie Norton

If someone thinks your ideas, the dreams bubbling up inside of you, are stupid, welcome to the Club. — Richie Norton

What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. — Richie Norton

Everyone loves the idea of "disruption" in business, but no one likes it when it happens to them. — Richie Norton

Success steps: Think big. Act small. Then scale.

Failure steps: Act big. Think small. Then shrink.

Consider your next big thing a project. Get one. Get it right. No sense growing a broken system. — Richie Norton

If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin. — Richie Norton

A brand is a person. — Richie Norton

The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can. — Richie Norton

Procrastination threatens to rob us of those things that are most important in our lives. — Richie Norton

Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision. — Richie Norton

To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective. — Richie Norton

Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle? — Richie Norton

Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today. — Richie Norton

Stupid is the New Smart. — Richie Norton

Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction. — Richie Norton

A little piece of everywhere I go becomes a big part of everything I do. — Richie Norton

Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently. — Richie Norton

To crush fear doesn't mean you eliminate it; crushing fear means you literally crush it down into smaller, more manageable parts and tackle one piece at a time. — Richie Norton

You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you. — Richie Norton

During the inevitable times when you feel like your work has no meaning, find meaning at home. If you need something more to feel creative or need extra cash, then moonlight: start dream projects after work hours. At some point in time, a successful side project can become your main project and you'll be fortunate enough to make your work and your dreams become one. || You should always have meaning outside the workplace. Work to support your lifestyle - don't live to support your work. — Richie Norton

Always err on the side of generosity. — Richie Norton

Is it weird that when I see a cool t shirt or pick up a toothbrush or see a new car I don't think about the product itself? I think about the thousands of people and dollars to make it.

I think about how the retailer that took the risk to buy and resell it. Then I work backwards to the store costs, the distributer who got it there, the shipping company that brought it over from China, the factory workers that made it, the people that sourced the materials and the people that harvested the raw materials, and on and on..
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The global economy is amazing. Your $20 t-shirt is a freaking miracle. — Richie Norton

The Great Wall of Facebook:

Having just visited the Great Wall of China, I'm thinking about the walls we build on FB. They are real. They keep people in and others out.

Build your wall carefully by answering this question:

What are you building your wall around? — Richie Norton

IT'S TIME TO LEARN YOUR A.B.C.s

Always
BE CONFIDENT
Confidence is a feeling, feel it.

Always
BE CREATIVE
Creativity is an ability, enable it.

Always
BE CURIOUS
Curiosity is a desire, desire it.

Always
BE COMPASSIONATE
Compassion is an awareness, be aware.

Always
BE CHARITABLE
Charity is generous, be generous.

Always
BE CONSIDERATE
Consideration is thoughtful, think.

Always
BE COURTEOUS
Courtesy is a mindset, be mindful.

Always
BE COACHABLE
Coachability is a willingness, be willing.

Always
BE COMMITTED
Commitment is purpose, live on purpose.

Always
BE CARING
Caring is giving, give. — Richie Norton

People love to say, "You gotta fake it till you make it." But this implies that the fake you is someone better than who you inherently are, and this is simply not the truth. Let me say this loud and clear: the person you imagine yourself to be in the very best and most powerful moments of your life, is the authentic you. And in truth, I imagine you're probably much more amazing even than that. — Richie Norton

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us. — Richie Norton

Live in a way that helps you lean into your fears, make a difference and live without regret. — Richie Norton

Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometimes we just go through life living the same day over and over and never gaining true wisdom. Let that never be me. — Richie Norton

How to "change the world" in two words: S.T.A.R.T. N.O.W.

1. START - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.

2. NOW - No Opportunity Wasted — Richie Norton

Note to businesspersons and salespersons: "Be professional" does not mean "be a robot." Just be friendly and act like a real person. Cool? — Richie Norton

It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship. — Richie Norton

Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret
a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence. — Richie Norton

MESSAGE + MISSION = MOVEMENT

Its not that you want to be on TV or the radio or in a magazine. If no one watched or listened or read, you wouldn't care about those mediums.

What you want is an audience.

You want to be seen and heard. You have a message to share. That said, the world has giving you your own TV channel (YouTube and any other video platform). The world has given you a radio station and even hosts (podcasts). The world has given you your own magazine and newspaper (websites, blogs, etc).

YOU ARE SEEN AND HEARD. YOU ARE ALREADY STANDING ON THE STAGE.

NOW WHAT?

We are watching and listening. — Richie Norton

There is a very real danger present when we suppress our feelings to act on inspiration in exchange for the "safety" of the status quo. We risk sacrificing the opportunity to live a more fulfilling and purpose driven life. We risk sacrificing the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others. We risk sacrificing the beautiful blessing of finding a greater sense of meaning in our own lives.
In short, we run the very real risk living a life of regret. — Richie Norton

Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on. — Richie Norton

Some people just love to stir the pot, but don't realize they're cooking themselves. — Richie Norton

One day employers will need to incentivize employees to actually work in an office. The office, in many ways, is obsolete. The office is more and more becoming a place for wasteful meetings and the work is actually being done at home. A Results-Only-Work-Environment (ROWE) is the path of future location-independent businesses. — Richie Norton

It's not about how smart you are
it's about capturing minds. — Richie Norton

Ever feel like you're always winding up and never throwing it out? You might blame it on perfectionism or procrastination or preparation. You may even call it prudent. But whatever it is...IT'S NOT WORKING. I call this phenomenon "petrified performance." Where you're busy, busy, busy (on the wrong activities or the right activities for too long), and never accomplishing the idea or task you set out to do. You're stuck. Like a tree that once was lively is now dead and immovable like a stone. What once was a fluid idea is now frozen in time. How do you overcome petrified performance? With practice, silly. Everything you do should be considered a "project" because projects have a beginning and an end with a timeline. No more dreaming. Wake up and put those dreams to work by putting the steps necessary to make them happen on the calendar. Are you willing to practice? That's my prescription. — Richie Norton

Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more. — Richie Norton

Doubt manifests itself in indecision. — Richie Norton

If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff. — Richie Norton

When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your value add. — Richie Norton

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out. — Richie Norton

You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it. — Richie Norton

if you begin, you win. — Richie Norton

People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all. — Richie Norton

Marketing without sales is dead. — Richie Norton

Never mix negative thinking with negative people. Multiplying negatives, in this instance, won't make a positive. — Richie Norton

The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success. — Richie Norton

Don't be a hater and call it love. — Richie Norton

If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label. — Richie Norton

The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die. — Richie Norton

When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe? — Richie Norton

If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that are
grounded in your authentic principles. Don't lie. Don't
cheat. Don't push others down to obtain success. — Richie Norton

Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance. — Richie Norton

The pursuit of prosperity shouldn't stop you from the pursuit of happiness. — Richie Norton

Action is the bridge between thought and reality. — Richie Norton