Ryan Holiday Quotes

Shouldn’t we be just as invested in building ourselves as we would be to any company?

Storytelling in which eventually your talent becomes your identity and your accomplishments become your worth. But a story like this is never honest or helpful. In my retelling to you just now, I left...

Through our perception of events, we are complicit in the creation—as well as the destruction—of every one of our obstacles. There

Without the pestilence of panic or fear. Rockefeller

You must reclaim the ability to abstain because within it is your clarity and self-control.

You’ve got to do something very difficult. Don’t focus on that. Instead break it down into pieces. Simply do what you need to do right now. And do it well. And then move on to the next thing. Follow t...

1. You can create the aura of exclusivity with an invite-only feature (as Mailbox did). 2. You can create hundreds of fake profiles to make your service look more popular and active than it actually i...

A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts, so he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions.

A podium and a prison is each a place, one high and the other low, but in either place your freedom of choice can be maintained if you so wish. —EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 2.6.25

Aaron] had previously believed that if you came up with a great idea people would use it. But he realized now that you couldn’t expect people to come to you; you had to pull them in.

Accept only what is true. 2. Work for the common good. 3. Match our needs and wants with what is in our control. 4. Embrace what nature has in store for us.

According to Seneca, the Greek word euthymia is one we should think of often: it is the sense of our own path and how to stay on it without getting distracted by all the others that intersect it. In o...

According to the Stoics, the circle of control contains just one thing: YOUR MIND.

Action is commonplace, right action is not. As a discipline, it’s not any kind of action that will do, but directed action. Everything must be done in the service of the whole. Step by step, action by...

Adversity can harden you. Or it can loosen you up and make you better—if you let it.

Advertising can add fuel to a fire, but rarely is it sufficient to start one.

All of us regularly say yes unthinkingly, or out of vague attraction, or out of greed or vanity. Because we can’t say no—because we might miss out on something if we did. We think yes will let us acco...

All of us waste precious life doing things we don’t like, to prove ourselves to people we don’t respect, and to get things we don’t want.

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before. To them, the idea that no one has ever done this or that is a good thing. When given an unfair...

And Johnson, genuinely hated by his opponent and the crowd, still enjoying every minute of it. Smiling, joking, playing the whole fight. Why not? There’s no value in any other reaction. Should he hate...