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

— Ryan Lilly

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

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

— Ryan Lilly

A hammer made of deadlines is the surest tool for crushing writer's block.

— Ryan Lilly

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

— Ryan Lilly

A personal brand is determined by what you have created, whom you have connected, and how you have made those people feel.

— Ryan Lilly

A personal brand, once local and temporal, is now global and forever. That’s the blessing and the curse of the internet in regard to your reputation.

— 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

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

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

— Ryan Lilly