Richie Norton Quotes

A little conflict can create a lot of creativity.

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

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 The office, in many ways, is obsolete.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.

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?

QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things

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.

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

A brand is a person.

When you say the word marketing, do you think of serving? Until you do, you’re going to live far below your highest potential.

Are you in love with your idea more than your reality? Change that.

Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is toxic.

If you’re not scared every day, you’re not pushing hard enough.

Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.

FIND YOUR WEIRDFinding your weird is a lot like finding your voice. Although, your voice is more about your passion, your story, your way of communicating with the world.Your weird is that thing you do that people would miss if you were gone.Your weird is the thing that keeps your followers following you.Your weird puts a smile on a face or an idea in a mind or money in your pocket.Your weird is how we remember you.What's your weird?If you don't know, ask someone. Ask lots of people!When you embrace your weird, you love your life, share your story, meet new people, experience great things, freak yourself out, live on purpose, "save the whales," enjoy the moment.Find your weird.But first, breathe.

If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%.

There are literally hundreds of other micro-experiences and incredible experiences that help shape the book. But what really drove it home for me was not only hundreds of years of history that I went through to help formulate the concept of starting something stupid, but practicing it for myself and with hundreds of my own clients.

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

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.

It's not about how smart you are--it's about capturing minds.

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

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.

Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too.

The parents of politics are lack of control and seeking to control. The parents of leadership are influence and trust.

Perfection is born of imperfection.

S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities

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

TZEDAKAH is a Hebrew word commonly translated as “charity.” One Jewish leader described tzedakah as having eight levels of charitable giving. The eighth and highest level of giving is described like this:“The highest form of charity is to help sustain a person before they become impoverished by offering a substantial gift in a dignified manner, or by extending a suitable loan, or by helping them find employment or establish themselves in business so as to make it unnecessary for them to become dependent on others.”Serve others in a way that helps them become self-reliant (or interdependent) and watch miracles happen for both you and them.

Work to enjoy life. Work to create value. Work to survive, strive and thrive. But do not work...to work.

If only employees knew this...there is no hand out just because you got a degree. You still gotta make $ for the biz (employer), if you choose not to make $ for yourself (freelancer / ent).

Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego.

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

I cannot stress how important and effective it is to leverage the principles of S.T.A.R.T. - Serve. Thank. Ask. Receive. Trust.

Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.

Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?

Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.

Do you have a personal mantra? Mine comes from a childhood song. "Wherever I go the grass grows greener.

You can't judge a man by the way he reacts when things go right, but by the way he reacts when things go wrong.

Trust isn't just the greatest currency, it's the only currency. Once trust is gone in any form of currency, the value is gone.

Mission matching: an ask that creates synergistic congruence (aka win-win) between missions.

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...The global economy is amazing. Your $20 t-shirt is a freaking miracle.

You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotage from bosses who can’t perform.

It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.

Doubt manifests itself in indecision.

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.)

If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE business…don’t overcomplicate things. Once all is said and done, the foundational elements of a successful business are very simple: respect, service, value and sales. Comparatively, everything else is froth.

Don’t sell based on inventory. Inventory based on who you want to sell.A lot of people sell homes. They all have structure. Location, size, style, function, benefit, community, who stays (and leaves)...totally different. You can sell or do anything at a premium. It may be a home, but the type of clientele you work with is a choice. Don’t sell based on inventory. Inventory based on who you want to sell.Go to work.

Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The other 1% is to cross it.

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

Don’t sell based on inventory. Inventory based on who you want to sell.

Dreams hit the fan? Life unexpectedly take a turn for the worst? Here’s what you do:First thing I think is to realize God didn’t do this to you. It’s just life.Second, know that it sucks. It does.Third, it’s a tunnel not a cave.Fourth, it still sucks.Fifth, it’s not hopeless. Assign meaning to it. Choose for these horrible things to bring you closer to family and god and not farther apart.Praying for you

When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.

Be generous. The outcome will blow your mind.

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

Social media was designed to SHARE what you’re doing and who you are, not BE what you’re doing and be who you are.

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

Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. However, the majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.