Ryan Lilly Quotes

Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.
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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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For a case study in personal branding. Google “Jarod Kintz.” He’s kind of a big deal.
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Sensible brands lend themselves to all of the senses.
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Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers.
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Carve-out a niche, craft a personal pitch, push-out content and your brand is enriched.
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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.
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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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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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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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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.
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Do billboard salesmen record their sales on charts? If so, who's at the top of the billboard charts for billboard sales?
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My greatest expectation is that I expect more of myself than anyone could expect.
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Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet?
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The most honorable part of a network are the hubs, not the nodes that lead to nowhere.
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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.
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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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I wonder if the highlighter was highlight of the career for the person who invented it?
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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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Gamblers take blind risks. Entrepreneurs take risks while visually impaired and feel their way up and out.
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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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Entrepreneurs see the "no diving" sign and back-up to get a running start.
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There’s been a lot written on the topic of minimalism. But I still believe in it.
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You don’t have to submerge. Just take a D.I.P. in Daily Incremental Progress.
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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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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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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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A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel.
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For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.
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Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.
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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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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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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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Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.
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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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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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We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.
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Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.
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Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans.
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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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Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.
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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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A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
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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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I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.
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Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club.
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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.
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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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Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.
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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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Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you.
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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.
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Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.
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Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.
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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 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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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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20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.
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Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.
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