Top 50 Ryan Lilly Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results.”

— Ryan Lilly

2. “Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.”

— Ryan Lilly

3. “Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution.”

— Ryan Lilly

4. “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.”

— Ryan Lilly

5. “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

6. “A professional headshot in front of a bookshelf says you’re an intellectual. A professional headshot peeking though a bookshelf says you’re probably under a restraining order.”

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Ryan Lilly

8. “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

9. “Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you.”

— Ryan Lilly

10. “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

11. “The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.”

— Ryan Lilly

12. “Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world’s balance sheet?”

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Ryan Lilly

14. “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

15. “Rebels revel in rewriting reality’s restrictions.”

— Ryan Lilly

16. “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

17. “A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer’s block.”

— Ryan Lilly

18. “Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.”

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Ryan Lilly

24. “Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.”

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Ryan Lilly

26. “Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove.”

— Ryan Lilly

27. “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

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

— Ryan Lilly

29. “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.”

— Ryan Lilly

30. “Everyone breathing is broken. Keep breathing light into them until the stained glass collage takes your breath away.”

— Ryan Lilly

31. “The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one.”

— Ryan Lilly

32. “20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.”

— Ryan Lilly

33. “Look yourself in the eyes in a mirror each day. You can ignore the small voice still inside you, but your reflection will always have something to say.”

— Ryan Lilly

34. “Procrastinators are pros at neglecting now and languishing later.”

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Ryan Lilly

36. “Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.”

— Ryan Lilly

37. “Entrepreneurs see what others can’t, do what others won’t, and accomplish what others dream.”

— Ryan Lilly

38. “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

39. “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

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

— Ryan Lilly

41. “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.”

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Ryan Lilly

43. “Don’t simply dream, create. Don’t simply create, ship. Don’t simply ship, dream.”

— Ryan Lilly

44. “One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him.”

— Ryan Lilly

45. “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

46. “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

47. “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.”

— Ryan Lilly

48. “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

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

— Ryan Lilly

50. “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.”

— Ryan Lilly