“With a business, we take most failures less personally and understand they’re part of the process.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“In life, there will be times when we do everything right, perhaps even perfectly. Yet the results will somehow be negative: failure,… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better. —WENDELL PHILLIPS” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Ordinary people shy away from negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation and desire into undertaking.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“We blame our bosses, the economy, our politicians, other people, or we write ourselves off as failures or our goals as impossible.… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Ordinary people shy away from negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“It’s time you understand that the world is telling you something with each and every failure and action. It’s feedback—giving you precise… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Failure and adversity are relative and unique to each of us. Almost without exception, this is what life does: it takes our… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Because we make ourselves deaf to feedback, because we overestimate our abilities, because we become consumed with ourselves, we end up subjecting… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“An employee in your company makes a careless mistake that costs you business. This can be exactly what you spend so much… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“When people ask where we are, what we’re doing, how that “situation” is coming along, the answer should be clear: We’re working… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“You could say that failure always arrives uninvited, but through our ego, far too many of us allow it to stick around.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“With a business, we take most failures less personally and understand they’re part of the process.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
