Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.
~ Ryan Lilly
Most startups actually start down and only go up if they catch the winds of market demand.
You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box.
Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer.
20% of management theories are responsible for 80% of results. That’s assuming the Pareto Principle makes the cut.
Entrepreneurs don’t ask for permission. They act per a mission.
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.
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.
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.
The opportunity cost of an unlived dream is not only that dream, but also the dreams the dream was meant to inspire.
Entrepreneurs see what others can't, do what others won't, and accomplish what others dream.
Don't simply dream, create. Don't simply create, ship. Don't simply ship, dream.
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.
Build a valuable brand by branding what is valuable about you.
Corporate & personal branding both require storytelling to be captivating. Stories provide context, meaning & the opportunity for relationship.
Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.
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.
Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course.
Be a pro at what you do. No one shows-up to meetings of the Unsuccessful Skydivers Club.
I’ve written for the waste basket so often that we’ve become friends. He writes too, but it’s mostly garbage.
A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.
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.
A product in the marketplace is the result of thought in an inner space and action more than the common place.
Yeast is to flour as action is to ambition. Rising to success requires adding and alternating starters.
Personal brands are determined by a track record of actions, not a track record of plans.
Growing a culture requires a good storyteller. Changing a culture requires a persuasive editor.
We are not creators; only combiners of the created. Invention isn't about new ingredients, but new recipes. And innovations taste the best.
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.
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.
Never before have the tools of value creation been so great and the potential artisans so busy watching the Kardashians.
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.
I enjoy self-publishing & sending publishers rejection letters. They're like, 'Who is this guy?' And I'm like, 'the end of your industry.
Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days.
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.
For any creative thought to be contagious, it must first be worthy of a sneeze.
A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel.
My best ideas come in the shower, where I’m showered with water, but also ideas.
Create lightning bolt ideas during brainstorms by causing disturbances in your atmosphere.
Fortune follows those who can create ideas by connecting old ones. Strong personal brands are created when connection and creation connect.
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.
