Ryan Holmes famous quotes

03-24-2025

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Communication #Media #Lasts
HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Office Space #Lucky #Bigs
For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Needs #Tools #Busy
It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Media #May #Coincidence
Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Media #Skills #People
You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Running #Marathon #Sprint
Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Office #Use #Might
What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Opportunity #Growing #Obstacles
Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Each Day #Levels #Canada
I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.
-- Ryan Holmes

#People #Challenges #Problem
Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Phones #Media #Email
I was told I had to go to business school to succeed. I gave it a shot, but eventually dropped out to bootstrap a restaurant with just a Visa card and a $20,000 line of credit. Everyone told me restaurants were hard work (and they were right! I have so much respect for anyone in the restaurant business). I ran the restaurant for two years, sold a franchise, decided to change paths, and sold the whole operation at a modest profit.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Hard Work #School #Years
I think that Vancouver as well as Canada needs a boot camp for young entrepreneurs. We have already seen tens if not hundreds of people put their names forward to be involved in the program, and we just think this is an amazing way to accelerate what theyre doing.
-- Ryan Holmes

#Thinking #Young Entrepreneurs #Names

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