Ryan Lilly quotes:

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Run after today, lest you run out of tomorrows.

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

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

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

Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions.

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

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

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

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

When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

I had a dream about you making balloon animals for kids. You were out of balloons and the kids were out of patience, so you inflated their imaginations instead.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

Never underestimate the collective strength of your weakest connections.

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

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

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

Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion.

Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing.

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.

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.

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

Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer.

I had a dream about you starting a pet store. You didn't have any customers yet, and I was your guinea pig.

Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.

Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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