The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don't seem like marketing messages. Because it means that the viewers' defenses… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Advertising can add fuel to a fire, but rarely is it sufficient to start one.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“The best marketing you can do for your book is to start writing the next one.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
In my experience, marketing is best when it proves the product it is supporting. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
We need to separate marketing messages from content. We need to enforce a clear line between 'editorial' and 'advertising.' — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process. — 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
“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 tools of the Internet and social media have made it possible to track, test, iterate, and improve marketing to the point… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
The problem with a lot of marketing advice is that the examples they use are not exactly typical. It's hard for businesses,… — 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
“creating more work is one of the most effective marketing techniques of all.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
“Advertising is just a slightly more scalable form of creating demand than door-to-door sales.” — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical - I'll disclose that right up… — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Growth-hacking is about scalability - ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image
Self-imposed discipline with a bent towards results rather than 'creative' and sustainability spending is unfortunately not the norm in the marketing industry. — 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
