Richie Norton Quotes

Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.

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

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

What are you NOT working on that you should?

If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter?

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

Success is a process, not an event.

Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience. No doubt about it. The family is the greatest and most important enterprise on earth. Lead yours with passion and joy!

Perfection is born of imperfection.

How you bring people into your home is just as important as when they walk through the door. Frame well. #marketing

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

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.

Don't worry. You'll find your message in your mess.

What is your motivation? When you drill down and ask, "What if there was zero ROI (of any form)?," you'll discover your highest and best use of time.

The definition of management is literally "control," but the definition of true leadership is love.

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.

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

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

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

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

Don't wait. Start stuff.

College does not equal job security. Entrepreneurship does not equal job security. For heaven's sake, "job security" does not equal job security. So what do you do? Don't be a one-trick pony. Add real value in everything you do. But most of all, study and apply business models. No matter what discipline you come from. Learn how to add value so that value can flow in the form of money to you. That, my friends, is job security. Learn where money comes from and you'll know where to turn when life throws a curve.

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

Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.

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

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.)

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.

Where there is no integrity, there is no unity.

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

At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to waste away—and that would be the greatest waste of all.

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.

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

Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?

Work-Life Freedom > Work-Life Balance

Every penny NOT spent on investing in yourself (after basic needs of course) may be a wasted future opportunity from missing learns and connects.

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

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

If you want to be trusted, trust first. Make decisions that are grounded in your authentic principles. Don’t lie. Don’t cheat. Don’t push others down to obtain success.

Your life should consist of more than commuting, working, eating, surfing the Internet, sleeping and watching TV. Your life should be filled with purpose-driven experiences and projects that bring excitement, passion, energy, and authentic meaning and joy into your life.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Stupid is the New Smart.

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.

Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing.

Entrepreneurs get distracted by productivity and miss profits.Corporate folk get distracted by efficiencies and miss effectiveness.But ballers? Ballers know the difference between a hack and a hoop every time.Take your shot.

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.

Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.

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.

Life experience is the new work experience.

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).

People who make big promises can also make big lies. Trust first, but exercise smart trust. You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego and jealousy for bosses who can’t perform. If your job or task is codependent, you can be sabotaged. Always seek interdependence and people who are authentic at the core, not blue in the face.

The bigger the mess, the greater the progress.

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.

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

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.

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.

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