Ryan Lilly Quotes

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.

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

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.

Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections.

Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution.

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.

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

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

If all it takes to motivate you is a quote then this quote has nothing to say – except to go soar with the freakin' eagles.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.

Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.

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

Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Procrastinators are pros at neglecting now and languishing later.

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

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

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.

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

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

Never fear starting. Fear never starting.

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

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

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

Leadership calculus: always choose to rise over run.

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

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