Ryan Holiday Quotes
Top 96 wise famous quotes and sayings by Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It's much easier to control our perceptions and emotions than it is to give up our desire to control other people and events.
why should customers do that? Have you actually made it easy for them to spread your product? Is the product even worth talking about?
Persist and resist". Persist in your efforts. Resist giving into distraction, discouragement, and disorder. - Epictetus
What is bad luck? Opinion. What are conflict, dispute, blame, accusation, irreverence, and frivolity? They are all opinions,
No marketer is ever going to push something with the stink of reasonableness, complexity, or mixed emotions.
The end goal of every growth hacker is to build a self-perpetuating marketing machine that reaches millions by itself. - AARON GINN
Coding and technical chops are now an essential part of being a great marketer. Growth hackers are a hybrid of marketer and coder ...
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
Richard Branson likes to say, is that "business opportunities are like buses; there's always another coming around.
If action is what we do when we still have some agency over our situation, the will is what we depend on when agency has all but disappeared.
director of growth at StumbleUpon, put it best: growth hacking is more of a mindset than a tool kit.
What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
Whatever we face, we have a choice: Will we be blocked by obstacles, or will we advance through and over them?
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
Snark functions as a device to punish human spontaneity, eccentricity, nonconformity, and simple error. Everyone is being snarked into line,
And what is up to us? Our emotions Our judgments Our creativity Our attitude Our perspective Our desires Our decisions Our determination
listen to Marcus Aurelius's empowering call to "get active in your own rescue - if you care for yourself at all - and do it while you can.
What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice. - THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics.
great failing is "to see yourself as more than you are and to value yourself at less than your true worth." A
Attempting to destroy something out of hate or ego often ensures that it will be preserved and disseminated forever.
The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it's over.
We forget: In life, it doesn't matter what happens to you or where you came from. It matters what you do with what happens and what you've been given.
A growth hacker doesn't see marketing as something one does but rather as something one builds into the product itself.
Wherever we are, whatever we're doing and herever we are going, we owe it to ourselves, to our art, to the world to do it well.
Great commanders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. They
All of us waste precious life doing things we don't like, to prove ourselves to people we don't respect, and to get things we don't want.
Every obstacle is unique to each of us. But the responses they elicit are the same: Fear. Frustration. Confusion. Helplessness. Depression. Anger.
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
A poet's function . . . is not to experience the poetic state: that is a private affair. His function is to create it in others.
It's three interdependent, interconnected, and fluidly contingent disciplines: Perception, Action, and the Will.
You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
Every negative has a positive. Push a negative hard enough and deep enough that it will break through into its counterside.
We're all just humans, doing the best we can. We're all just trying to survive, and in the process, inch the world forward a little bit.
In its own way, the most harmful dragon we chase is the one that makes us think we can change things that are simply not ours to change.
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
which is to say, stand with the philosopher, or else with the mob!" - EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.15.13 W
There are far more failures in the world due to a collapse of will than there will ever be from objectively conclusive external events.
An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
Let others slap each others on the back while you're back in the lab or the gym or pounding the pavement.
Freedom? That's easy. It's in your choices. Happiness? That's easy. It's in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make.
Perseverance. Force of purpose. Indomitable will. Those traits were once uniquely part of the American DNA. But they've been weakening for some time.