Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
RYAN HOLIDAYWe decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
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Ordinary 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.
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It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life-that’s persistence.
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The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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Our 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.
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The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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The Germans have a word for it: Sitzfleisch. Staying power. Winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it’s over.
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An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
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There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.
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Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?
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Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation-without the pestilence of panic or fear.
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ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
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