Mission matching: an ask that creates synergistic congruence (aka win-win) between missions.
RICHIE NORTON Never mix negative thinking with negative people. Multiplying negatives, in this instance, won't mak...
RICHIE NORTON Live who you are or die someone else.
RICHIE NORTON Everyone is pretty good at learning. Very few are good at doing.
RICHIE NORTON Selling is a sacred trust between buyer and seller.
RICHIE NORTON S.T.O.P. = Start To Open Possibilities
RICHIE NORTON Perfectionism is a disease. Procrastination is a disease. ACTION is the cure.
RICHIE NORTON In the end, every startup is different. But in the beginning every startup is the same.
RICHIE NORTON QUIT = Quickly Uphold Important Things
RICHIE NORTON Perfection is born of imperfection.
RICHIE NORTON Sell the results, not the nuts and bolts.
RICHIE NORTON To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.
RICHIE NORTON Hiding behind titles to create security is insecurity.
RICHIE NORTON Integrity is the bond of trust.
RICHIE NORTON Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.

Separating them is wh...
RICHIE NORTON All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. ...
RICHIE NORTON It's not about how smart you are--it's about capturing minds.
RICHIE NORTON Ideas become reality. once you hit that reality, you get a new idea. it's a virtuous upward spiral. ...
RICHIE NORTON When the going gets tough, people bail. When the going gets easy, people get lazy. Honest, smart, ha...
RICHIE NORTON Rhetorical question: Did you get to where you are by accepting the status quo?
I didn't.
RICHIE NORTON Freedom rings when you realize you can become what you never thought you could become.
RICHIE NORTON Home is where your people are.
RICHIE NORTON Ignorance paired with arrogance (naïveté) is logical, but arrogance paired with awareness (ego) is...
RICHIE NORTON Doing good and dealing with intentional idiots far out weighs sitting back and relaxing.
RICHIE NORTON Bad boss? Fire him/her. When you're interviewing for a job, You're job is to interview them. You are...
RICHIE NORTON Trust isn't just the greatest currency, it's the only currency. Once trust is gone in any form of cu...
RICHIE NORTON Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.
RICHIE NORTON Optimism doesn't make you more persistent. Persistence makes you more optimistic.
RICHIE NORTON Never trust a person that tries to sell you by how righteous they are. I'm telling your right now, i...
RICHIE NORTON Selfishness at the expense of others is bad. Self-care for the betterment of others is good.
RICHIE NORTON The rewards are far better IN the arena than in the stands.
RICHIE NORTON Just because you have baggage doesn't mean you have to lug it around.
RICHIE NORTON We’re all scared.

Yes, all of us. I’m afraid every day. If I’m not afraid, I must n...
RICHIE NORTON A little piece of everywhere I go becomes a big part of everything I do.
RICHIE NORTON Don’t worry about getting credit, do the work anyway.
RICHIE NORTON Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn’t matter.
RICHIE NORTON Opportunities will come and go, but if you do nothing about them, so will you.
RICHIE NORTON Entrepreneurs don't have weekends or birthdays or holidays. Every day is my weekend, my birthday, my...
RICHIE NORTON Mentors change lives, but students change mentors’ lives more.
RICHIE NORTON You can learn from those who have come down from the mountain, but you won’t have the same experie...
RICHIE NORTON At the end of the day, if you’re wasting your time by not investing in yourself, you’re going to...
RICHIE NORTON True leadership is caring about the people who don’t care about things you care about.
RICHIE NORTON You can be the most productive and most effective, but politics show up as ego, jealousy and sabotag...
RICHIE NORTON If only employees knew this...there is no hand out just because you got a degree. You still gotta ma...
RICHIE NORTON Leveraging existing resources is innovation’s sweetest play.
RICHIE NORTON If you can dream it up. You can team it up.
RICHIE NORTON When we leverage, we aggregate and organize existing resources to achieve success.
RICHIE NORTON Attempting to succeed without embracing the tools immediately available for your success is no less ...
RICHIE NORTON If you can dream it up, you can team it up.
RICHIE NORTON Influence creates affluence. Affluence does not create influence. Affluence makes you more of who yo...
RICHIE NORTON Work to enjoy life. Work to create value. Work to survive, strive and thrive. But do not work...to w...
RICHIE NORTON Marketing is safe. Sales is risky. UNLESS, marketing has done its job. Then sales is safe too.
RICHIE NORTON When you say the word marketing, do you think of serving? Until you do, you’re going to live far b...
RICHIE NORTON You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it.
RICHIE NORTON Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing.
RICHIE NORTON Marketing without sales is dead.
RICHIE NORTON There is only one way to make money: sell something. You're either selling your time or a product. T...
RICHIE NORTON Don’t sell based on inventory. Inventory based on who you want to sell.

A lot of people...
RICHIE NORTON When you choose freedom, you also choose responsibility.
RICHIE NORTON Wealth isn't about money. It's about options...and you always have options. Choose wisely. Live weal...
RICHIE NORTON A little conflict can create a lot of creativity.
RICHIE NORTON How to uplift others. It’s not a pie, it’s a cake. It’s not a ladder, it’s a bridge.
RICHIE NORTON To be humble is to be teachable. Meek, not weak. The most humble people are the most aggressive lead...
RICHIE NORTON What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ...
RICHIE NORTON Believing there is a bridge from where you are to where you want to go is 99% of the battle. The oth...
RICHIE NORTON When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in.
RICHIE NORTON What is your motivation? When you drill down and ask, "What if there was zero ROI (of any form)?," y...
RICHIE NORTON TZEDAKAH is a Hebrew word commonly translated as “charity.”

One Jewish leader descri...
RICHIE NORTON If you continue to treat yourself like a 3rd class citizen, you’ll stay a 3rd class citizen.
...
RICHIE NORTON Project stacking is the art of creating projects that multi-task for you, so you don’t have to.
RICHIE NORTON Two questions I'm pondering:

1. If money didn't exist, would you still chase your dreams?...
RICHIE NORTON Another year older, but am I wiser? Wisdom comes from learning and changing for the better. Sometime...
RICHIE NORTON If you want an incredibly passionate, happy, ALIVE business…don’t overcomplicate things. Once al...
RICHIE NORTON People LOVE change (when it's about changing others). People HATE change (when it's about changing t...
RICHIE NORTON It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSIT. Don't wait. Just ship.
RICHIE NORTON You can't expect the level of excitement of your audience to be greater than your own.
RICHIE NORTON Storm? Shine your light and make a rainbow.
RICHIE NORTON If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.
RICHIE NORTON The majority are satisfied living within the idea of the reality instead of the reality of the idea.
RICHIE NORTON Don't worry. You'll find your message in your mess.
RICHIE NORTON The definition of management is literally "control," but the definition of true leadership is love.
RICHIE NORTON Procrastination threatens to rob us of those things that are most important in our lives.
RICHIE NORTON There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and doe...
RICHIE NORTON Simplicity is complex. It's never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most ad...
RICHIE NORTON Entrepreneurs get distracted by productivity and miss profits.

Corporate folk get distrac...
RICHIE NORTON If self-employment is the opposite of employed-by-other, than a job is outsourcing your freedom (tim...
RICHIE NORTON TIME: Today Is My Everything
RICHIE NORTON Credibility comes from results. Everything else is just marketing.
RICHIE NORTON It’s really simple. Sell high-value stuff to people who value high-value stuff.
RICHIE NORTON You either live who you are or die being someone else.
RICHIE NORTON The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.
RICHIE NORTON Truth is the greatest marketing campaign.
RICHIE NORTON When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer's need with your ...
RICHIE NORTON Are you in love with your idea more than your reality? Change that.
RICHIE NORTON Happiness being surrounded by good friends and family at a BBQ.
RICHIE NORTON Do you have a personal mantra? Mine comes from a childhood song.

"Wherever I go the gras...
RICHIE NORTON Dreams hit the fan? Life unexpectedly take a turn for the worst? Here’s what you do:

Fi...
RICHIE NORTON Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn't. T...
RICHIE NORTON The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to sav...
RICHIE NORTON Build a brand or a brand will build you.
RICHIE NORTON A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message. Build a brand or a brand...
RICHIE NORTON A brand is a person.
RICHIE NORTON A brand is a person that has a voice, evokes emotion and spreads a message.
RICHIE NORTON If you don't build a personal brand, someone else will brand you with the wrong label.
RICHIE NORTON People love to say, “You gotta fake it till you make it.” But this implies that the fake you is ...
RICHIE NORTON Have the STRENGTH to say “no” to the status quo.

Have the WILL to listen to the deep...
RICHIE NORTON Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the coura...
RICHIE NORTON Every penny NOT spent on investing in yourself (after basic needs of course) may be a wasted future ...
RICHIE NORTON The bigger the mess, the greater the progress.
RICHIE NORTON Companies preach creativity, hire for conformity and call consultants when they fail who tell them t...
RICHIE NORTON Work is meant to create a desired outcome. If your work is not creating the dream, what are you work...
RICHIE NORTON Spoil your clients.
RICHIE NORTON I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think ...
RICHIE NORTON Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and commi...
RICHIE NORTON You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.
RICHIE NORTON You can always get another job. You’ll never get another life.
RICHIE NORTON Don’t sell based on inventory. Inventory based on who you want to sell.
RICHIE NORTON If you want to double your productively, shorten the timeline to by 50%.
RICHIE NORTON It’s not about getting out of your comfort zone to reach your goal. It's about widening your comfo...
RICHIE NORTON Branding is a lot of things, but one thing it's not is soft.

When you brand, rebrand or b...
RICHIE NORTON Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON There's room at the top because so few are willing to pay the extra price to get there.
RICHIE NORTON Want creativity? Diversify your experience to develop your creative muscles.
RICHIE NORTON It's called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don't wait. Just ship.
RICHIE NORTON Success is a process, not an event.
RICHIE NORTON Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next...
RICHIE NORTON Forest rangers see the forest differently. Likewise, entrepreneurs see the world differently.
RICHIE NORTON A long sweater, good boots, and stretchy jeans are my fall fashion must-haves.
SOFIA RICHIE From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
RICHIE BENAUD In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.
RICHIE BENAUD The early Bon Jovi stuff I can't stand. I just think we didn't have our stylistic voice. But...
RICHIE SAMBORA We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi...
RICHIE SAMBORA There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I ...
RICHIE SAMBORA That got me thinking. Bon Jovi kills in Jersey. Just kills. We did Atlantic City this past winter an...
RICHIE SAMBORA My style is edgy but really put together. I'm not the kind of girl to walk out of the house in b...
SOFIA RICHIE True friends are like diamonds – bright, beautiful, valuable, and always in style.
NICOLE RICHIE Media were never allowed into an Australian dressing room until I became skipper. I changed that and...
RICHIE BENAUD Learning about all those different things psychologically - about grief and my own addictions and pr...
RICHIE SAMBORA Any captain can only do his best for the team and for cricket. When you are winning, you are a hero....
RICHIE BENAUD My friend Chloe Bartoli is a really cool stylist. I've talked about fashion with her a lot over ...
SOFIA RICHIE I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it...
LIONEL RICHIE The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.
NICOLE RICHIE Woodstock was both a peaceful protest and a global celebration.
RICHIE HAVENS I always felt there was some kind of nobility centered in my desire and passion for what I do.
RICHIE SAMBORA You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels li...
LIONEL RICHIE Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to co...
RICHIE HAVENS I've spent a lot of Thanksgivings on the road with my band, so anytime that I can spend Thanksgi...
RICHIE SAMBORA To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better.
RICHIE ASHBURN Besides being responsible for myself, I'm now responsible for someone else. And I have to set th...
NICOLE RICHIE We had been reading about these beatniks who hung out or lived in Greenwich Village, and we wanted t...
RICHIE HAVENS It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it....
NICOLE RICHIE But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial rad...
RICHIE BENAUD Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y...
LIONEL RICHIE Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in othe...
RICHIE SAMBORA My aspiration isn't to be famous; it's to design clothes. If that gets me attention at the e...
SOFIA RICHIE We're not dead yet, ... The fat lady hasn't sung yet. She was spraying her throat there for a while ...
RICHIE ADUBATO I don't know where Jon is! It wasn't my turn to watch him!
RICHIE SAMBORA Having Jon as my partner for 26 years I've been inspired and challenged to become a better musician,...
RICHIE SAMBORA Uncle Richie gotta take his medicine now!
RICHIE SAMBORA I saw Jon on stage, and I was like, WOW, that kid is a star. I knew it, immediately. He had the char...
RICHIE SAMBORA I know it ain't sunday, but I'm taking you to church anyway! ~Lay your hands on me~
RICHIE SAMBORA We're about the music. We know everything about each other. We're very close family members.
RICHIE SAMBORA I think what it all comes down to, first and foremost, is songwriting. Nashville has been famous for...
RICHIE SAMBORA I want the people of New Jersey to jump off a cliff like Kurt Vonnegut so I can show them how to fly...
RICHIE SAMBORA Last time I saw you was backstage in Melbourne. You had just been through that thing with the guy an...
RICHIE SAMBORA I'm talking about giving the people what they want. It's just like, you know, I don't wake up with p...
RICHIE SAMBORA God, it feels as if we're as big as we've ever been.
RICHIE SAMBORA We've had those elements, and now it's just kind of catching up to us. So it's a nice thing. And I l...
RICHIE SAMBORA I think anything that we can do to give back and help out in any way we can ... I think its a great ...
RICHIE SAMBORA The whole band is married to each other. The mothers hang out and have their motherly lunches, the d...
RICHIE SAMBORA I read online that Jon had passed away, then got a call from him like 20 minutes later. Honestly, I ...
RICHIE SAMBORA My father-in-law was a U.S. Marine colonel, and he was stationed on the base that we played at, ... ...
RICHIE SAMBORA Jon produced it. He did a very nice job, actually, ... Fly Me To The Moon.
RICHIE SAMBORA If you're gonna get weird, get weird.
RICHIE SAMBORA Maybe Jon has got a nice ass, but it's the front that counts!
RICHIE SAMBORA We wrote this in my mother’s basement. Jon had this title ‘Wanted Dead Or Alive’ and then I ca...
RICHIE SAMBORA Whatever we were feeling towards each other, at the end of the New Jersey tour, we both put it aside...
RICHIE SAMBORA Jon is very smart, he's a great frontman, a very talented musician. He's a very dedicated guy, very ...
RICHIE SAMBORA Seize every opportunity you have to learn. Keep your eyes and ears wide open and seize life. Don’t...
RICHIE SAMBORA Dare to fail. If you never fail, you’re never taken risks and that’s no way to take on this life...
RICHIE SAMBORA My job ranges from creating the initial overall theme of the season, to developing fabrics and sketc...
NICOLE RICHIE Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in...
LIONEL RICHIE It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippie...
RICHIE HAVENS I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and t...
LIONEL RICHIE I try to always be there for him, as a friend, and from a musical level. Like I said, I want to make...
RICHIE SAMBORA I'm flattered that so many baseball people think I'm a Hall of Famer. But what's hard to believe is ...
RICHIE ASHBURN I get more mail for that one season than I get for all my years before that.
RICHIE ASHBURN I wish I'd known early what I had to learn late.
RICHIE ASHBURN Yes, let me tell you about Pete Rose. If ever Pete took one drink at lunch, he would be an alcoholic...
RICHIE ASHBURN We?re blessed and cursed in the same aspect. We have 20 quality players all the way around and it?s ...
RICHIE ANDERSON A lot of times, when juniors become seniors, they get that character to them that develops. It?s jus...
RICHIE ANDERSON It's an exciting time for the school and a great achievement.
RICHIE ANDERSON We feel fortunate that we have a lot of arms that we can throw. We feel like we have eight or nine p...
RICHIE ANDERSON If a horse won't eat it, I don't want to play on it.
RICHIE ALLEN Now that we've got this finally all done, we'll be able to go back to having shows with a 500 capaci...
RICHIE ALLEN I'll play first, third, left. I'll play anywhere - except Philadelphia.
RICHIE ALLEN I wish they'd shut the gates, and let us play ball with no press and no fans.
RICHIE ALLEN Usually Temeka is able to go by you. But her pull-up jump shot . . . it's amazing how she can get it...
RICHIE ADUBATO [Donna Orender, who took over as president of the WNBA this year from Val Ackerman, challenges Swoop...
RICHIE ADUBATO