Ryan Holiday

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

Ryan Holiday

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success – but it’s there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

Ryan Holiday

Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure.

Ryan Holiday

Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Ryan Holiday

Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it as such.

Ryan Holiday

First Google built a superior product. Then it built excitement by making it invite-only. And by steadily increasing the number of invites allowed to its existing user base, Gmail spread from person to person until it became the most popular, and in many ways the best, free e-mail service.

Ryan Holiday

Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process.

Ryan Holiday

Humiliation should not be suppressed. It should be monetized.

Ryan Holiday

I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.

Ryan Holiday

If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you’re not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you’re going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.

Ryan Holiday