Words matter. These are the best Ryan Holiday Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
It’s your job to find a release and an outlet for the stress and the feelings. Never forget: the crazy stays at home.
As someone responsible for my own fair share of marketing stunts, I am suspicious and cynical – I’ll disclose that right up front.
Like pretty much every other ambitious person, I always figured I’d eventually move to New York. It is, at this point, half-dream and half-obligation for people trying to do big things. It’s the American Dream inside the American Dream.
I made a lot of money and had a great time playing with the words that make up the news. I exploited the laziness behind the news and people’s reading habits.
You can’t believe your own marketing.
Don’t move to New York. Find your own city and your way.
Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.
My neighbors don’t care that I’m an author. It’s inherently ego-inhibiting.
I took the ‘Seinfeld’ tour of New York once – and if I think about it too hard, my brain explodes.
When I lived in Louisiana, ‘Django Unchained’ was shot at my neighbor’s house. They shot a Sly Stallone movie in my gym.
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.
If you’re shameless enough, you can sell anything.
We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don’t always get what is rightfully ours, even if we’ve earned it.
Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process.
The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth.
In my experience, marketing is best when it proves the product it is supporting.
Being criticized in the media is a good problem to have – most of the time. It means you’re doing something that is at least interesting or cool or crazy enough to be noticed. It might not always feel good, but it’s usually better than the alternative of obscurity.
My advice to young people would be this: Don’t move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself.
Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart.
I made a lot of money and had a great time playing with the words that make up the news. I exploited the laziness behind the news and people’s reading habits.
Self-imposed discipline with a bent towards results rather than ‘creative’ and sustainability spending is unfortunately not the norm in the marketing industry.
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.
Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction – only disappointment.
We need to separate marketing messages from content. We need to enforce a clear line between ‘editorial’ and ‘advertising.’
If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you’re not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you’re 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.
Growth-hacking is about scalability – ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users.
I know how hard authors work on their books and how far out of their element many are when it comes to doing the sales and marketing. So when I see someone doing it wrong and giving bad advice, I do my best to help – even when they’re not my clients.
The media, when it’s functioning properly, protects the public against marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things.
We often learn the hard way that our world is ruled by external factors. We don’t always get what is rightfully ours, even if we’ve earned it.
Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it.
I don’t play videogames and generally think that online activism is a giant waste of time.
When I dropped out of school at 19 to start my first job in Hollywood, I didn’t know anything, and I had no idea where I’d end up. Thankfully, I was attached to some smart and forgiving people who let me learn under them.
Dr. Drew Pinsky changed my life.
The greats – they protect their sleep because it’s where the best work comes from. They say no to things. They turn in when they hit their limits. They don’t let the creep of sleep deprivation undermine their judgment.
The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don’t control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that’s very empowering.
If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It’s always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error.
Stoicism – and philosophy – are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action.
Like pretty much every other ambitious person, I always figured I’d eventually move to New York. It is, at this point, half-dream and half-obligation for people trying to do big things. It’s the American Dream inside the American Dream.
Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you’re not doing that, do something – whatever it happens to be – that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it.
No matter how commonplace or dull your first job’s duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don’t want to and make it your own.
Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction – only disappointment.
The reality is that the economic situation for millennials is not a good one.
You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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.
Let’s be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth.
In 2007, I went to work in Beverly Hills as an intern at The Collective, a talent management agency. I’d been scouted for the job because of a blog I’d started in college and because the blogger-turned-author I worked for, Tucker Max, was producing a project with the company.
Everyone faces adversity.
Self-imposed discipline with a bent towards results rather than ‘creative’ and sustainability spending is unfortunately not the norm in the marketing industry.
As tough an idea as it often is to stomach, the best way to thrive in a world that requires grunt work is to stop seeing it as grunt work.
Everyone needs to start doing interviews over email. Whether you’re a journalist or a spokesperson speaking to the media, you’re better off communicating questions, statements, or inquiries via email.
Our facts aren’t fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren’t opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn’t information; it’s just hastily assembled symbols.
I wholeheartedly agree that many media ‘standards’ can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior.
The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.
What I’ve found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion.
Virality is not an accident. It is engineered. And that’s why growth hackers beat traditional marketers.
As authors, we’re all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it’s a tough battle.
Growth hackers don’t tolerate waste.
We need to separate marketing messages from content. We need to enforce a clear line between ‘editorial’ and ‘advertising.’
I love books. Probably too much for my own good.
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.
People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.
Growth hacking is the future of marketing. It has to be.
The idea that only the swaggering, all-knowing, and ruthlessly ambitious succeed is a lie. One that has discouraged so many people with so much potential – and worse, encouraged many more to crash and burn.
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