Richie Norton Quotes

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

Mentors change lives, but students change mentors' lives more. ~ Richie Norton

Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message. ~ Richie Norton

The best help you can get is someone who genuinely cares and knows how to help you get what you don't even know you want. ~ Richie Norton

When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it. ~ 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 you end your day feeling like you got nothing done, it's because you weren't working: you were busy, not productive. ~ 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

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

Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity. ~ Richie Norton

The more you thank, the more things to be grateful for you will receive. The opposite is also true. ~ Richie Norton

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

Few things, if anything, are more important than altruism. ~ Richie Norton

All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro. ~ Richie Norton

Don't allow life to pass you by because you are afraid of [looking] stupid. ~ Richie Norton

Have the STRENGTH to say "no" to the status quo.

Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.

Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent. ~ Richie Norton

Don't wait to be compelled to do great work. ~ Richie Norton

Every day you're not doing that thing you want to do (your dream), you're spending mental currency, your dream currency (time) on the wrong thing. ~ Richie Norton

Specialists will continue to lose not because of automation, but because of the imprisonment of industrial isolation.

Leaders and innovators who stay relevant see the interconnectedness of a broad use of skillsets that specialists can't see and use creativity to solve problems in times of complexity. ~ Richie Norton

Express gratitude for the greatness of small things. ~ Richie Norton

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

Don't just create art to make money. Make money so you can create more art. (Exchange any words you want for 'create art' and see if it fits). ~ Richie Norton

Breakdowns create breakthroughs.

Breakthroughs create more breakthroughs.

More breakthroughs create friction because idiots be jealous or don't get it or protect their little corner and act out of spite.

So you breakdown for another breakthrough.

If you're about to break, go for broke.

If you're not breaking, you're not really living. ~ Richie Norton

Doing good and dealing with intentional idiots far out weighs sitting back and relaxing. ~ Richie Norton

The rest isn't history...the rest is making history. ~ Richie Norton

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

Do you want to be remembered for the money you made or the life you lived? ~ Richie Norton

Waiting to start is an insult to the world. ~ Richie Norton

Sometimes it is not the marriage that is boring, it's your life. ⁣ ~ 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

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

Procrastination is like going to a fancy restaurant and filling up on bread and not leaving enough room for dinner. ~ Richie Norton

Freedom is the ability to choose how you spend your time. ⁣ ~ Richie Norton

Politics is not leadership. It never has been. It never will be. ~ 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

Dreams come true when you live life awake. ~ 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

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

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

Stupid is the New Smart. ~ Richie Norton

I started speaking because people asked me to, not because I necessarily wanted to.⁣⁣ ~ 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

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

Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing. ~ Richie Norton

Automation won't take your job, but the self-inflicted imprisonment of industrial isolation will. ~ Richie Norton

Crafting your work beats being told what to do. ~ 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

SWOT is cool, but strategic thinkers know that there is a point which:⁣⁣

- Strengths become weaknesses
- Weaknesses become strengths⁣⁣⁣⁣
- Opportunities become threats⁣⁣
- Threats become opportunities ⁣⁣

Strategic entrepreneurs and leaders find the greatest insights hiding behind SWOT.
⁣⁣ ~ Richie Norton

Companies preach creativity, hire for conformity and call consultants when they fail who tell them to be more creative. ~ Richie Norton

TIME: Today Is My Everything ~ Richie Norton

Where there's a WALL, there's a WAY. ~ Richie Norton

What's stopping you from moving forward? The need to be certain. Certainty is prison. Break free and you'll be free. ~ Richie Norton

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

Overcoming procrastination is not, I repeat, not about cramming additional work into your day ... overcoming procrastination is about simplifying your life to make space for the activities that matter most. ~ Richie Norton

It's funny how we save the world at the expense of our world - help others while forgetting our own. ⁣⁣ ~ Richie Norton

Sometimes blessings come in ugly wrapping paper. ~ Richie Norton

It's not about getting out of your comfort zone to reach your goal. It's about widening your comfort zone so far that your goal fits comfortably inside. Once you do that, hitting your goals will be like hitting 3s for Steph Curry. ~ Richie Norton

Questions open a space in your mind that allow better answers to breathe. ~ Richie Norton

Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.

Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego. ~ Richie Norton

Life is about doing things that matter first, not last. ~ Richie Norton

It's a small price to pay, but investing a little extra effort into the life you choose will move you from average - where all the competition is - to the top. ~ Richie Norton

To travel is to live. Breathe some life into your life and go outside! ~ Richie Norton

People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing themselves). ~ Richie Norton

Sadly, the news media has largely become propaganda, not journalism. Journalists tell, not sell. #hiddenagenda ~ Richie Norton

It's not what you got, but what you gave. ~ Richie Norton

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

Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic. ~ Richie Norton

Normal is never one of a kind.
One of a kind is never normal. ~ Richie Norton

Gavin's Law: Live to start. Start to live. ~ Richie Norton

Take your life to another level by ignoring the Joneses altogether.⁣ ~ Richie Norton

Embrace relentless self-determination and win. ~ Richie Norton

Intellect without implementation is ignorance, not intelligence.

By definition: intellect is understanding objectively, implementation of intellect is intelligence, knowledge is a branch of intelligence (intellect plus implementation) and ignorance is lack of knowledge which is a branch of intellect (understanding but not implementing).

Further, this is why we call academics "intellectual" and knowledge workers "practitioners." One could be both of course. From a scriptural perspective, "If any man will do his will, he shall know" (John 7:17). Vast difference between learning and knowing. The gap is in the doing (implementation vs ignorant to the doing). ~ Richie Norton

Rule 1: Be kind.

Rule 2: Don't be a doormat when they step on you.

Kindness and sticking up for yourself go hand in hand if you want happiness. ~ Richie Norton

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

You don't have to live your life tiptoeing around selfish, hidden-agenda-driven, crab-bucket, talk-behind-your-back, weasel people. You just don't. At work, church, home or play - seek people who embody the future you want and surround yourself with loving influences. You deserve that circle of inclusion and influence, but it's up to you to create it. ~ Richie Norton

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

What's your biggest idea to accomplish within the next two years? Break it down into smaller more manageable parts until you know what you must do this week to reach the next milestone. ~ Richie Norton

Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face. ~ Richie Norton

Influencing the world for good starts with service, self-care and specificity in time contribution to family. ~ Richie Norton

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

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

Normal is where innovation goes to die. ~ Richie Norton

Dreams don't get done until they are due. ~ Richie Norton

A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message. ~ Richie Norton

You need to become intimately acquainted with the value of adding value.⁣ ~ Richie Norton

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

Destiny is not fate, it's navigation. ~ Richie Norton

Allow the goals that "speak to your heart" to guide you in your decisions. ~ Richie Norton

Pay careful attention to those ideas that keep coming back to your mind. Ideas left lifeless are ghosts that don't just haunt you, they bite.⁣ ~ 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

Ego is essentially self-loathe, not self-love. ~ 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

The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea. ~ Richie Norton

Project stacking is the art of creating projects that multi-task for you, so you don't have to. ~ Richie Norton

You can always get another job. You'll never get another life. ~ Richie Norton

What could you do if you valued yourself more?

Whatever you think your worth in life and business, double it. Then double it again. ~ Richie Norton

You can't change and be somebody else in the future unless you start becoming a little better at being that future person today.⁣⁣ ~ 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