Ryan Lilly

Capitalize on charm by continually captivating your customer.

The greatest irony is that people with Rolodexes are no longer LinkedIn. And if that pun doesn't make sense, don__ ask anyone in your Rolodex to explain it.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

The best way to get over your fear of meeting new people is to imagine them naked. Unless you__e networking at a nudist camp, then you may have to get more creative.

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

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

If you__e struggling to __hink outside the box_ remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias?

Business ideas are like those flying dragons in Avatar. First you have to find one, let it choose you, then be brave enough to ride it.

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.

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

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

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

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