Ryan Holiday Quote

Lots of people, as the poet and artist Austin Kleon puts it, want to be the noun without doing the verb. To make something great, what’s required is need. As in, I need to do this. I have to. I can’t not.

Ryan Holiday

Lots of people, as the poet and artist Austin Kleon puts it, want to be the noun without doing the verb. To make something great, what’s required is need. As in, I need to do this. I have to. I can’t not.

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About Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday (born June 16, 1987) is an American philosopher, marketer, author, businessman and podcaster, notable for spreading Stoic philosophy in the form of books.
Prior to becoming an author, Holiday served as the former director of marketing and eventually an advisor for American Apparel. Holiday's debut to writing was in 2012, when he published Trust Me, I'm Lying. Holiday's notable works include his books on Stoic philosophy, such as The Obstacle Is the Way, Ego is the Enemy, Stillness is the Key, Discipline is Destiny, Courage is Calling, and Lives of the Stoics. He is controversial for his marketing of Stoicism in the form of "Memento Mori" coins and selling courses and calendars.