Ryan Holiday

Dr. Drew Pinsky changed my life.

— Ryan Holiday

“Bear and forbear.”

— Ryan Holiday

“The worst is yet to come.”

— Ryan Holiday

Everyone faces adversity.

— Ryan Holiday

“Duris dura franguntur.”

— Ryan Holiday

“Retention trumps acquisition.”

— Ryan Holiday

Great times are great softeners

— Ryan Holiday

I have a pet goat.

— Ryan Holiday

The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.

— Ryan Holiday

Life is hard, but we make it much harder.

— Ryan Holiday

“Use this knowledge to be gentle and gracious.”

— Ryan Holiday

Failure shows us the way - by showing us what isn't the way.

— Ryan Holiday

“Not: This is not so bad. But: I can make this good.”

— Ryan Holiday

“we don’t need to constantly compare ourselves with other people”

— Ryan Holiday

The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.

— Ryan Holiday

“sangfroid: unflappable coolness under pressure.”

— Ryan Holiday

“Focusing on smaller, progressive parts of the work also eliminates the tendency to sit on your ass and dream indefinitely. There”

— Ryan Holiday

“Heraclitus called self-deception an awful disease and eyesight a lying sense.” —DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS,”

— Ryan Holiday

“creating more work is one of the most effective marketing techniques of all.”

— Ryan Holiday

“Advertising is just a slightly more scalable form of creating demand than door-to-door sales.”

— Ryan Holiday

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

— Ryan Holiday

“philosophers”—the ancient Stoics—even if they’d never read them.* They had the”

— Ryan Holiday

We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don't always get what is rightfully ours,…

— Ryan Holiday

“Epictetus is reminding you that serenity and stability are results of your choices and judgment, not your environment.”

— Ryan Holiday

“you’ve got to do something very difficult. Don’t focus on that. Instead break it down into pieces. Simply do what you need…

— Ryan Holiday

“Where is Good? In our reasoned choices. Where is Evil? In our reasoned choices. Where is that which is neither Good nor…

— Ryan Holiday

“As infuriating as it may be, we must be rational and fair about our own work. This is difficult considering our conflict…

— Ryan Holiday

Reddit is like any democratic form of government - unless carefully guarded by its leaders and members, its trusts and privileges can…

— Ryan Holiday

“You will come across obstacles in life—fair and unfair. And you will discover, time and time again, that what matters most is…

— Ryan Holiday

“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

“While overpaid CEOs take long vacations and hide behind e-mail autoresponders, some programmer is working eighteen-hour days coding the start-up that will…

— Ryan Holiday

“Don’t let your reflection on the whole sweep of life crush you. Don’t fill your mind with all the bad things that…

— 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

Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is something men and women…

— Ryan Holiday

“The philosophy asserts that virtue (meaning, chiefly, the four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness, and it is…

— Ryan Holiday