In my experience, marketing is best when it proves the product it is supporting. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“creating more work is one of the most effective marketing techniques of all.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Each new work competes for customers with everything that came before it and everything that will come after.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“A critical test of any product: Does it have a purpose? Does it add value to the world? How will it improve… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Marketing is the art of allocating resources—sending more power to the wheels that are getting traction, sending it away from the ones… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The best strategic marketing decision you can make is to have a product or business fulfill a real, compelling need for a… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“As a general rule, however, the more accessible you can make your product, the easier it will be to market. You can… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Once we stop thinking of the products we market as static—that our job as marketers is to simply work with what we’ve… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Free and cheap helps.” So does making the entire process as easy and seamless as possible. The more you reduce the cost… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“If we can focus on making clear what parts of our day are within our control and what parts are not, we will not… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
“The areas of great interest to the Stoics all make an appearance here: virtue, mortality, emotions, self-awareness, fortitude, right action, problem solving, acceptance, mental… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
“With a business, we take most failures less personally and understand they’re part of the process.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
“Many creatives want to be just the creator, or only “the idea guy.” They like that because it’s sexy and because that’s what comes… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
Pretty much everyone's career starts the same way: with grunt work. Not just the cliched fetching of coffee, but other lowly tasks: taking notes… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
The greats - they protect their sleep because it's where the best work comes from. They say no to things. They turn in when… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
“Where little danger is apprehended, the more the enemy will be unprepared and consequently there is the fairest prospect of success.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get what is rightfully ours, even if… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
“From Rusticus … I learned to read carefully and not be satisfied with a rough understanding of the whole, and not to agree too… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
“Remember: even what we get for free has a cost, if only in what we pay to store it—in our garages and in our… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
It's your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
“The tools of the Internet and social media have made it possible to track, test, iterate, and improve marketing to the point where these… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share
