Quotes by Ryan Holiday

Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure.

Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but its there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well.

Public relations and marketing are something companies do to move product. It is not meaningful. It is not cool. Yet because it is cheap, easy, and lucrative to cover, blogs want to convince you that it is.

If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, youre not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, youre going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.

Leveraging community intelligence and making connections is a key component to being a growth hacker.

I have a pet goat.

You know whats better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.

“There’s nothing shameful about sweeping. It’s just another opportunity to excel—and to learn.”