Richie Norton Quotes - Page 2

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.

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.

If you can dream it up. You can team it up.

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

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

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

Integrity is the bond of trust.

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 The office, in many ways, is obsolete.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.

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

Never trust a person that tries to sell you by how righteous they are. I'm telling your right now, it's a scam.

Be generous. The outcome will blow your mind.

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.

To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.

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

If you continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you’ll stay a 3rd class citizen.You’re better than that.

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

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.

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

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

I believe in solving social ills with business skills.

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

WE MAY FEEL...BUT WE DON'TWe may feel the need to change employment, but we don’t.We may feel the need to start a specific project, but we don’t.We may feel the need to pursue higher education, but we don’tWe may feel the need to heal a broken relationship, but we don’t.We may feel the need to work to improve our spiritual lives, but we don’t.We may feel the need to take steps toward a healthier physical or emotional life for ourselves and/or our family, but again, we don’t.(This list could likely go on for eternity.)The desire for progression is innate, but the problem we face is that the actual act of progression is also a choice.Without embracing our inherent need for progress, for positive growth and/or change, we’ll still go on living....But at what cost?

In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.

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

Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.

You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll always remember the experiences and memories you create.

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

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

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.

Storm? Shine your light and make a rainbow.

LEADERSHIP is your org chart turned upside down.

Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts.

Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.

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

There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are an equal.

Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.

I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write a book called "the power of having a spine" - #metaphor

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

QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things

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

Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.

Gut check. Is your current fear a stumbling block or a stepping stone?

How much value do you want to get out of life? You get out what you put in. Approach your life with intent, courage, faith and hard work, and you’ll reap the beautiful value those sacrifices provide. That’s the way our strange world works.

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

Turn your self-hell into self-help.

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

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

Want true success? Ask yourself these 3 questions daily:1. Who can I serve?2. Where can I contribute greatest?3. Is my work today congruent with my future goals?

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.

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

Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience.

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.

Dreams come true when you live life awake.

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.

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

How to uplift others. It’s not a pie, it’s a cake. It’s not a ladder, it’s a bridge.

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

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.

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