Ryan Lilly Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning

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

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.

A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.

Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.

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

Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.

Soylent Green is made out of people. So is your personal network… but let’s hope its non-toxic because you drink it every day.

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.

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

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.

I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.

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

Jean-Baptiste Say may have coined the term 'entrepreneur' but he totally missed the opportunity to put it on a t-shirt and sell it.

For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.

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

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.

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

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.

I check every can of Barbasol I buy for dinosaur embryos. I haven't found any yet, as evidenced by the lack of T-Rex screams in my apartment.

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

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

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

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

The smell of new office supplies is so satisfying while being kicked out of Staples for inappropriate behavior with a file folder is so embarrassing.

Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?

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

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

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.

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

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

For a case study in personal branding. Google “Jarod Kintz.” He’s kind of a big deal.

Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.

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