Ryan Lilly Quotes

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.
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Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning
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Social media is not just a spoke on the wheel of marketing. It's becoming the way entire bicycles are built.
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Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers.
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I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.
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Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course.
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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.
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I get this buzz every time I'm quoted online. The ego high... yes... but also a Google Alert.
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Those without passion are often passed and shunned.
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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.
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If your personal brand were at a trade show alongside several thousand others, how would you fare? Now scale that to the global economy.
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Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.
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Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.
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My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.
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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?
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You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.
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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.
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For a case study in personal branding. Google “Jarod Kintz.” He’s kind of a big deal.
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I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?
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Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.
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The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.
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Carve-out a niche, craft a personal pitch, push-out content and your brand is enriched.
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A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be.
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Beautiful mosaics are made of broken or torn material. The most spectacular personal brands are compilations of the same.
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Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.
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The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.
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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.
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When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.
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Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results.
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Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities.
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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.
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Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections.
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The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with.
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Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.
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Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something and give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.
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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.
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Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.
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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.
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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?
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Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.
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Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.
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Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.
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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.
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A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.
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A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
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Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.
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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.
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Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.
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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.
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Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.
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Entrepreneurs often underestimate costs and overestimate rewards. But the fact that they estimate & still take action sets them apart from peers.
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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.
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A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.
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Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again.
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Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.
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Proformas rarely perform; missed projections are more often the norm. Still, we skew them up high, we miss but we try, for proformas which rarely perform.
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