Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
RYAN HOLIDAYConning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
RYAN HOLIDAYYou know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhat I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason—because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.
RYAN HOLIDAYOrdinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune – really anything, everything – to their advantage.
RYAN HOLIDAYTrue will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
RYAN HOLIDAYDollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
RYAN HOLIDAYAn entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
RYAN HOLIDAYOur first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.
RYAN HOLIDAYThe obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
RYAN HOLIDAYGreat times are great softeners.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhat is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
RYAN HOLIDAYProblems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
RYAN HOLIDAYADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
RYAN HOLIDAYFailure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhen intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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