Richie Norton Quotes

Building a family is an entrepreneurial experience.

~ Richie Norton

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.

~ Richie Norton

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.

~ 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

During the inevitable times when you feel like your work has no meaning, find meaning at home. If you need something more to feel creative or need extra cash, then moonlight: start dream projects after work hours. At some point in time, a successful side project can become your main project and you’ll be fortunate enough to make your work and your dreams become one. || You should always have meaning outside the workplace. Work to support your lifestyle — don’t live to support your work.

~ Richie Norton

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

~ Richie Norton

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.

~ Richie Norton

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 The office, in many ways, is obsolete.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.

~ Richie Norton

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

~ Richie Norton

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

~ 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

Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?

~ Richie Norton

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

~ 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

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

~ Richie Norton

Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.

~ Richie Norton

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

~ Richie Norton

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

~ Richie Norton

Exponential business growth comes from personal development.

~ Richie Norton

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

~ Richie Norton

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.

~ Richie Norton

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).

~ Richie Norton

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.

~ Richie Norton

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

~ Richie Norton

Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts.

~ Richie Norton

Would you produce, create and bring value to the world if it weren't for money? Or would you veg out? The necessity of money keeps people relevant and active. The paradox is that people who stay relevant and active make money.

~ Richie Norton

You can always get another job. You’ll never get another life.

~ Richie Norton

Be generous. The outcome will blow your mind.

~ 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

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

~ Richie Norton

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

~ Richie Norton

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

~ Richie Norton

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.

~ Richie Norton

Storm? Shine your light and make a rainbow.

~ Richie Norton

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

~ Richie Norton

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.

~ Richie Norton

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

~ Richie Norton

Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret--a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.

~ Richie Norton

You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.

~ Richie Norton

You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.

~ Richie Norton