Ryan Holiday

We don’t get to choose what happens to us, but we can always choose how we feel about it.

Ryan Holiday

We want things to go perfectly, so we naturally tell ourselves that we’ll get started once the conditions are right or once we have our bearings, when, really, it would be better to focus on making do with how things actually are.

Ryan Holiday

What we desire makes us vulnerable.

Ryan Holiday

When action is our priority, vanity falls away.

Ryan Holiday

When setbacks come, we respond by working twice as hard.

Ryan Holiday

Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you’re not doing that, do something – whatever it happens to be – that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it.

Ryan Holiday

You don’t convince people by challenging their longest and most firmly held opinions. You find common ground and work from there.

Ryan Holiday

Virality is not an accident. It is engineered.

Ryan Holiday

A growth hacker doesn’t see marketing as something one does but rather as something one builds into the product itself.

Ryan Holiday

Abundance can be its own obstacle.

Ryan Holiday