Ryan Lilly Quotes

#1. A personal brand should not be elevated if there is nothing underneath the label.

Ryan Lilly

#2. Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.

Ryan Lilly

#3. A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That's the blessing and the curse of the internet with regards to your reputation.

Ryan Lilly

#4. I like to go to Starbucks and watch the intellectuals. I observe them and their intellectualness. They in turn observe me drinking coffee and being a creeper.

Ryan Lilly

#5. Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.

Ryan Lilly

#6. Pass on it if you're not passionate; for convictions create clear choices.

Ryan Lilly

#7. Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative.

Ryan Lilly

#8. Deciding which relationships to pursue can be difficult. Especially if you're trying to get hired by the Magic 8 Ball factory and that little triangle thing isn't floating right.

Ryan Lilly

#9. I'm friends with a guy who is friends with a former Playboy model. So I guess you could say I'm 1 degree away from 212 degrees.

Ryan Lilly

#10. The only personal branding consultant who can ever hope to have a clear understanding of you and your value can be found in the mirror.

Ryan Lilly

#11. Never fear starting. Fear never starting.

Ryan Lilly

#12. Carve-out a niche, craft a personal pitch, push-out content and your brand is enriched.

Ryan Lilly

#13. There's been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it.

Ryan Lilly

#14. Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results.

Ryan Lilly

#15. Life is a web of intersections and choices. Your 1st choice is to recognize an intersection. Your 2nd choice is to be grateful for it.

Ryan Lilly

#16. A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.

Ryan Lilly

#17. Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.

Ryan Lilly

#18. You don't have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress.

Ryan Lilly

#19. In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.

Ryan Lilly

#20. A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.

Ryan Lilly

#21. You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.

Ryan Lilly

#22. My best ideas come in the shower, where I'm showered with water, but also ideas.

Ryan Lilly

#23. Let's form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we'll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

Ryan Lilly

#24. Success in life is about project management. Determine deliverables, make milestones, and always pursue the critical path.

Ryan Lilly

#25. The most honorable part of a network are the hubs, not the nodes that lead to nowhere.

Ryan Lilly

#26. Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course.

Ryan Lilly

#27. Collaborators let down their guards. Successful collaborators still carry a taser.

Ryan Lilly

#28. Jarod Kintz gets so many retweets, he's like Katniss Everdeen with tourettes in a forest full of Mockingjays.

Ryan Lilly

#29. I've written for the waste basket so often that we've become friends. He writes too, but it's mostly garbage.

Ryan Lilly

#30. I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee.

Ryan Lilly

#31. Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer.

Ryan Lilly

#32. A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel.

Ryan Lilly

#33. I've never written a quote I feel would be suitable for my gravestone. Wouldn't it be ironic if it were this one? Oh, and could you pull a few weeds while you're here?

Ryan Lilly

#34. Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.

Ryan Lilly

#35. 20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That's assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.

Ryan Lilly

#36. The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don't ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.

Ryan Lilly

#37. The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, "Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear.

Ryan Lilly

#38. Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans.

Ryan Lilly

#39. A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

Ryan Lilly

#40. Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections.

Ryan Lilly

#41. Metal business cards are a good investment. Especially if you were to meet Magneto. He would have no other choice but to be attracted to you.

Ryan Lilly

#42. Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.

Ryan Lilly

#43. Procrastinators are pros at neglecting now and languishing later.

Ryan Lilly

#44. Life is like a game of limbo in reverse. The bar keeps rising higher and we need to keep rising to the occasion.

Ryan Lilly

#45. Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.

Ryan Lilly

#46. The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.

Ryan Lilly

#47. If you're struggling to "think outside the box" remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

Ryan Lilly

#48. Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.

Ryan Lilly

#49. Those without passion are often passed and shunned.

Ryan Lilly

#50. Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?

Ryan Lilly

#51. Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

Ryan Lilly

#52. I want my online content to be so good that Google's web crawler stops and says "Dayyyum son!

Ryan Lilly

#53. The one thing all entrepreneurs have in common is that they started. The one thing everyone else has in common is that they haven't.

Ryan Lilly

#54. The focus of gap analysis should be getting to the other side. If you bend-over to analyze a gap too long, you'll probably fall into it.

Ryan Lilly

#55. The study of personal branding brings one to realize everything is personal and everyone is branded.

Ryan Lilly

#56. Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same.

Ryan Lilly

#57. Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you.

Ryan Lilly

#58. Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.

Ryan Lilly

#59. My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect.

Ryan Lilly

#60. Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.

Ryan Lilly

#61. We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.

Ryan Lilly

#62. I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms.

Ryan Lilly

#63. Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.

Ryan Lilly

#64. Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.

Ryan Lilly

#65. Leadership calculus: always choose to rise over run.

Ryan Lilly

#66. Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution.

Ryan Lilly

#67. Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers.

Ryan Lilly

#68. The best way to get over your fear of meeting new people is to imagine them naked. Unless you're networking at a nudist camp, then you may have to get more creative.

Ryan Lilly

#69. I get this buzz every time I'm quoted online. The ego high... yes... but also a Google Alert.

Ryan Lilly

#70. Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

Ryan Lilly

#71. For a case study in personal branding. Google "Jarod Kintz." He's kind of a big deal.

Ryan Lilly

#72. Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self.

Ryan Lilly

#73. I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?

Ryan Lilly

#74. A brand precedes, parallels, and leaves a path behind. What your brand will say, is saying, and has said matters more the deeper we go into the globalized, digitized, connection economy.

Ryan Lilly

#75. A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

Ryan Lilly

#76. Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.

Ryan Lilly

#77. If your personal brand were at a trade show alongside several thousand others, how would you fare? Now scale that to the global economy.

Ryan Lilly

#78. Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again.

Ryan Lilly

#79. Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99.

Ryan Lilly

#80. Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club.

Ryan Lilly

#81. Entrepreneurs don't ask for permission. They act per a mission.

Ryan Lilly

#82. Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

Ryan Lilly

#83. I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.

Ryan Lilly