Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit. - Ryan Lilly
Pass on it if you’re not passionate; for convictions create clear choices. - Ryan Lilly
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
Those without passion are often passed and shunned. - Ryan Lilly
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
A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time. - Ryan Lilly
Progress across the time axis is passive. Progress up the results axis is passion. - Ryan Lilly
Part of my soul goes into each quote I write. A book of my quotes can be yours for just $19.99. - Ryan Lilly
Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success. - Ryan Lilly
The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire. - Ryan Lilly
A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear. - Ryan Lilly
When I first tried a sensory deprivation tank, people thought I had lost my mind. In fact, I had found it. - Ryan Lilly
Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream. - Ryan Lilly
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. - Ryan Lilly
Change occurs when excuses pivot to execution. - Ryan Lilly
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
Those with calling also find wealth, so jump and start swimming towards your true self. - Ryan Lilly
I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage. - Ryan Lilly
Success in life is about project management. Determine deliverables, make milestones, and always pursue the critical path. - Ryan Lilly
Success = Wisdom + Courage + Discipline. KNOW what to do, be BRAVE enough to do it, and LEAD YOURSELF to doing it again and again. - Ryan Lilly
Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days. - Ryan Lilly
Make something people want and sell that, or be someone people need and sell you. - Ryan Lilly
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. - Ryan Lilly
Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor. - Ryan Lilly
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. - Ryan Lilly
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
Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere. - Ryan Lilly
Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters. - Ryan Lilly
One of my relatives invented the sensory deprivation tank. Appropriately, most of my family has never seen or heard of him. - Ryan Lilly
A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be. - Ryan Lilly
Consuming the content and culture of creatives does not make one a creative. Creating makes a creative. - Ryan Lilly
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
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. - Ryan Lilly
Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course. - Ryan Lilly
Rebels revel in rewriting reality's restrictions. - Ryan Lilly
We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best. - Ryan Lilly
Quotes are echos of voices transporting wisdom, humor, and love. Returning again to the human condition, fleeting once more as a dove. - Ryan Lilly
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. - Ryan Lilly
Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club. - Ryan Lilly
Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way. - Ryan Lilly
For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze. - Ryan Lilly
A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place. - Ryan Lilly
Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand. - Ryan Lilly
The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one. - Ryan Lilly
You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box. - Ryan Lilly
20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut. - Ryan Lilly
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block. - Ryan Lilly
The best cure for a stick up your butt is a dog to play fetch with. - Ryan Lilly
My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas. - Ryan Lilly
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
I get this buzz every time I'm quoted online. The ego high... yes... but also a Google Alert. - Ryan Lilly
Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians. - Ryan Lilly
Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer. - Ryan Lilly
Yesterday is a pile of rubble. Today is a pile of opportunity. Life takes a new dump each morning - Ryan Lilly
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
Procrastinators are pros at neglecting now and languishing later. - Ryan Lilly
Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move. - Ryan Lilly
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
Unwavering incremental change can create remarkable and monumental results. - Ryan Lilly
Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream. - Ryan Lilly
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. - Ryan Lilly
Creation pulls something from an abyss of nothing. Startups take the something & give it to those in the dark, at first, perhaps, for nothing. - Ryan Lilly
Legacy accounting: Will you have been an asset or a liability on the world's balance sheet? - Ryan Lilly
Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission. - Ryan Lilly