Ryan Holiday

“This is a fundamental irony of most people’s lives. They don’t quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet…

— Ryan Holiday

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool. — RICHARD FEYNMAN”

— Ryan Holiday

“According to the Stoics, the circle of control contains just one thing: YOUR MIND.”

— Ryan Holiday

“Every impediment only served to make the inferno within them burn with greater ferocity.”

— Ryan Holiday

“The imperative is clear: stop sitting on your hands and start getting them dirty.”

— Ryan Holiday

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

— Ryan Holiday

“What happened yesterday—what happened five minutes ago—is the past. We can reignite and restart whenever we like. Why not do it right…

— Ryan Holiday

Growth hacking is a mindset, and those who have it will reap incredible gains.

— Ryan Holiday

“The power of being a student is not just that it is an extended period of instruction, it also places the ego…

— Ryan Holiday

If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time…

— Ryan Holiday

“Ordinary people shy away from negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great…

— Ryan Holiday

“Likewise, if you’ve fallen into the sway of tracking your fellow creators on social media or you check the charts every week…

— Ryan Holiday

“Does what happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness? Nope. Then get back to work!…

— Ryan Holiday

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into…

— Ryan Holiday

“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

“The best strategic marketing decision you can make is to have a product or business fulfill a real, compelling need for a…

— Ryan Holiday

“June 16th NO SHAME IN NEEDING HELP “Don’t be ashamed of needing help. You have a duty to fulfill just like a…

— Ryan Holiday

“To prevent becoming overwhelmed by the world around us, we must, as the ancients practiced, learn how to limit our passions and…

— Ryan Holiday

“What matters is that you learn how to manage yourself and others, before your industry eats you alive. Micromanagers are egotists who…

— Ryan Holiday

“In Silicon Valley, start-ups don’t launch with polished, finished businesses. Instead, they release their “Minimum Viable Product” (MVP)—the most basic version of…

— Ryan Holiday

“Take a step back, then go around the problem. Find some leverage. Approach from what is called the “line of least expectation.”…

— Ryan Holiday

“Think of George Washington, putting everything he had into the American Revolution, and then saying, “The event is in the hand of…

— Ryan Holiday

“If an emotion can't change the condition or the situation you're dealing with, it is likely an unhelpful emotion. Or, quite possibly,…

— Ryan Holiday

“Let’s pass over to the really rich—how often the occasions they look just like the poor! When they travel abroad they must…

— Ryan Holiday

“Whether what you’re going through is your fault or your problem doesn’t matter, because it’s yours to deal with right now.”

— Ryan Holiday

The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging.

— Ryan Holiday

Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.

— Ryan Holiday

“No one is entitled to relationships only because their work is genius. Relationships have to be earned, and maintained.”

— Ryan Holiday

“We can seek to rationalize the worst behavior by pointing to outliers.”

— Ryan Holiday

“This too shall pass” was Lincoln’s favorite saying, one he once said was applicable in any and every situation one could encounter.…

— Ryan Holiday

Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men…

— Ryan Holiday

Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.

— Ryan Holiday

“why should customers do that? Have you actually made it easy for them to spread your product? Is the product even worth…

— Ryan Holiday

“Each new work competes for customers with everything that came before it and everything that will come after.”

— Ryan Holiday

“The question we must ask for ourselves is: Are we going to be miserable just because other people are?”

— Ryan Holiday

“serenity and stability are results of your choices and judgment, not your environment.”

— Ryan Holiday

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

— Ryan Holiday

“Uncertainty and fear are relieved by authority. Training is authority.”

— Ryan Holiday

“You could say that failure always arrives uninvited, but through our ego, far too many of us allow it to stick around.”

— Ryan Holiday

As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle.

— Ryan Holiday