Top 100 Richie Norton Quotes
#1. Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.
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#2. If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that are
grounded in your authentic principles. Don't lie. Don't
cheat. Don't push others down to obtain success.
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#3. There's room at the top because so few are willing to pay the extra price to get there.
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#4. Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.
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#6. What are you will to sacrifice for success? Whatever it is, don't sacrifice your values, your morals, your principles. Not worth it.
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#7. The competition is out to get you. Are you a moving target or a sitting duck? Innovate or die.
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#8. Dear Influencers: Trolls will lurk under the bridges you build to gobble you up. They are hangry for attention. Build bridges anyways.
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#10. 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.
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#11. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing.
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#22. Beware: If you egg people on, you'll get egg on your face.
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#23. Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently.
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#25. 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?
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#26. Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live wealthy.
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#27. Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
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#28. Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea ... creativity and stupid are interchangeable ... because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going against the grain, and leaning into risk and fear.
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#29. Don't disregard your so-called "stupid ideas." They may be inspired thoughts and high-potential opportunities. Whatcha gonna do?
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#30. 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.)
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#31. Life is too short not to start something stupid.
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#32. Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.
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#33. 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.
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#34. Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.
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#35. The pursuit of prosperity shouldn't stop you from the pursuit of happiness.
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#36. People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing themselves).
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#37. Mission matching: an ask that creates synergistic congruence (aka win-win) between missions.
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#38. Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. Then move forward or move on.
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#40. Happiness being surrounded by good friends and family at a BBQ.
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#41. 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.
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#42. To be inefficient and effective is better than being efficient and ineffective.
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#43. Life isn't about having, it's about experiencing.
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#44. You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it.
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#45. 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.
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#46. The moment you think you can do something that you previously thought you couldn't, you can.
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#47. To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.
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#48. It's not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it's the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.
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#49. People who say "it's just business" are lying. It's a deceptive and manipulative tactic used by weak minds. Anyone who has ever run or been in business knows that a business will fail if the relationships are not healthy. Business is the business of relationships. That is all.
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#50. You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.
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#51. Creatives Creed: Destruction is creation. Creation is destruction.
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#52. A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message.
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#53. 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.
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#54. It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.
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#55. Act NOW on those ideas! As they say, you snooze you lose. Or as I say, if you BEGIN you WIN.
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#56. You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.
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#58. If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.
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#59. You can disagree with an idea without attacking the person who shared it.
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#61. Sometimes I work so long and so hard that I have no idea what day or time it is. I forget to eat. I don't get ready for the day. I fall asleep on the couch and wake up and get back to work.
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#62. If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.
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#63. Attempting to succeed without embracing the tools immediately available for your success is no less absurd than trying to row a boat by drawing only your hands through the water or trying to unscrew a screw using nothing more than your fingernail.
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#64. People with money tend to buy more things instead of experiences...because they don't have time.
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#65. 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.
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#66. Have the STRENGTH to say "no" to the status quo.
Have the WILL to listen to the deepest desires of your heart.
Have the COURAGE to ACT on and live out your intent.
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#67. To accelerate success, we must get as close to our dreams as possible as soon as possible.
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#68. If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label.
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#69. Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.
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#70. If you have time to write a business plan, you have time to prove the model. Just sayin.
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#71. Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.
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#72. 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
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#74. When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously.
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#75. When haters start to rear their ugly head, just play around with them and throw them a bone so they can go away and chew on it.
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#76. To make money you have to use a four letter word: SELL.
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#77. If you want control, loosen your grip. You're strangling your employees. Letting go is actually holding on.
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#78. It's not about how smart you are
it's about capturing minds.
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#79. It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.
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#81. Note to businesspersons and salespersons: "Be professional" does not mean "be a robot." Just be friendly and act like a real person. Cool?
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#82. If someone thinks your ideas, the dreams bubbling up inside of you, are stupid, welcome to the Club.
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#83. Never mix negative thinking with negative people. Multiplying negatives, in this instance, won't make a positive.
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#84. You may forget the toys you buy and break, but you'll always remember the experiences and memories you create.
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#85. Are you Mindful or Mindless? Or in the Middle?
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#86. Action is the bridge between thought and reality.
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#87. Give your idea a chance. You'll never hit a home run (or a base hit for that matter) if you don't swing.
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#89. Peace of mind is a person you can trust. Happiness is being trustworthy.
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#90. Live in a way that helps you lean into your fears, make a difference and live without regret.
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#91. The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.
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#92. If everyone waited to become an expert before starting, no one would become an expert. To become an EXPERT, you must have EXPERIENCE. To get EXPERIENCE, you must EXPERIMENT! Stop waiting. Start stuff.
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#94. Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER.
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#96. Decision: I refuse to achieve "success" at the expense of my life. The two - life success and genuine fulfillment - will have to go hand in hand, because I will not keep my head down for the next forty years only to look up at the end and say, "Now I can finally start living!
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#97. Overcoming procrastination is not, I repeat, not about cramming additional work into your day ... overcoming procrastination is about simplifying your life to make space for the activities that matter most.
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#99. Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.
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#100. Unless your message is that you have no message, you need a message.
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