Think progress, not perfection. Ryan Holiday View this quote
A growth hacker is someone who has thrown out the playbook of traditional marketing and replaced it with only what is testable, trackable, and scalable. Their tools are e-mails, pay-per-click ads, blogs, and platform APIs instead of commercials, publicity, and money. Ryan Holiday
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Adults create perennial sellers-and adults take responsibility for themselves. Children expect opportunities to be handed to them; maturity is understanding you have to go out and make them. Ryan Holiday
As authors, we’re all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it’s a tough battle. Ryan Holiday
As I discovered in my media manipulations, the information that finds us online – what spreads – is the worst kind. It raised itself above the din not through its value, importance, or accuracy but through the opposite: through slickness, titillation, and polarity. Ryan Holiday
As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical – I’ll disclose that right up front. Ryan Holiday
Because we make ourselves deaf to feedback, because we overestimate our abilities, because we become consumed with ourselves, we end up subjecting ourselves not just to the inevitable stumbles or difficulties of life but catastrophic, painful failures. Ryan Holiday
Before he became the most brilliant and famous man in the ad business, David Ogilvy sold ovens door-to-door. Because of that, he never forgot that advertising is just a slightly more scalable form of creating demand than door-to-door sales. Ryan Holiday
Behind mountains are more mountains. Ryan Holiday
Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics – something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks – unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games. Ryan Holiday
Cheaply test your concept, improve it based on feedback, then launch. Ryan Holiday
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June 16th, 1987