Richie Norton Quotes

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

To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible.

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

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.

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

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

Dreams don't get done until they are due.

Dreams come true when you live life awake.

It's not what you got, but what you gave.

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

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

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

The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.

Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.

Life is too short not to start something stupid.

Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.

Gavin's Law: Live to start. Start to live.

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

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

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

Action is the bridge between thought and reality.

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

No more tomorrows. Today is the day.

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.

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

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

Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.

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

Trust. And be trusted.

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

A brand is a person.

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

Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.

Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year.

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).

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

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

Be generous. The outcome will blow your mind.

When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously.

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

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

Always err on the side of generosity.

What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story.

Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.

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.

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

The bigger the mess, the greater the progress.

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

START: Serve, Thank, Ask, Receive, Trust

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

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

You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.

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

Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.

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

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

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

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.

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

There's room at the top because so few are willing to pay the extra price to get there.

If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.

When we leverage, we aggregate and organize existing resources to achieve success.

No one knows your inner battle. No one knows the challenge you face. No one knows the sacrifice it takes to do what you do. But you're not alone.

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

Life experience is the new work experience.

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.

Better to teach a man to fish who already loves to fish.

Don't wait. Start stuff.

Stupid is the New Smart.

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

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

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

I believe in solving social ills with business skills.

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

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

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

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

My parents did a great job of creating a home we wanted to return to...and all of our friends wanted to be there too.

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

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

Don't be a hater and call it love.

Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience.

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

Don't wait to be compelled to do great work.

You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.

If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.

You can disagree with an idea without attacking the person who shared it.

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?

MOM = Maker of Miracles

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.

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.

Wantrepreneur: "I'll do it later."

Entrepreneur: Today IS later.

Work-Life Freedom Work-Life Balance

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

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

Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently.

Marketing without sales is dead.

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

Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?

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.