Ryan Holiday

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

Let’s be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.

Ryan Holiday

Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don’t understand.

Ryan Holiday

No matter how commonplace or dull your first job’s duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don’t want to and make it your own.

Ryan Holiday

No one is entitled to relationships only because their work is genius. Relationships have to be earned, and maintained.

Ryan Holiday

Outward appearances are deceptive. What’s within them, beneath them, is what matters.

Ryan Holiday

Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.

Ryan Holiday

Stop looking for an epiphany, and start looking for weak points. Stop looking for angels, and start looking for angles. There are options. Settle in for the long haul and then try each and every possibility, and you’ll get there.

Ryan Holiday

Take pride in your work. But it is not all there is.

Ryan Holiday

The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don’t control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that’s very empowering.

Ryan Holiday