Ryan Holiday

Failure really can be an asset if what you’re trying to do is improve, learn, or do something new.

Ryan Holiday

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

Ryan Holiday

Growth hacking is a mindset, and those who have it will reap incredible gains.

Ryan Holiday

Here’s the thing I’ve learned about ideas. It’s your job to have them.

Ryan Holiday

If you know what you believe and why you believe it, you’ll avoid poisonous relationships, toxic jobs, fair-weather friends, and any number of ills that afflict people who haven’t thought through their deepest concerns.

Ryan Holiday

In every job and position, there are valuable lessons to be learned. Even in a nasty, abusive, toxic workplace, you’re being taught precisely how not to run an organization.

Ryan Holiday

In every situation, that which blocks our path actually presents a new path with a new part of us.

Ryan Holiday

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. And the only way you’ll do something spectacular is by using it all to your advantage.

Ryan Holiday

In the way that a good wine must be aged, or that we let meat marinate for hours in spices and sauce, an idea must be given space to develop. Rushing into things eliminates that space.

Ryan Holiday

It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life – that’s persistence.

Ryan Holiday