I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.
RYAN HOLIDAYWhere the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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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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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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An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
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Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.
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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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The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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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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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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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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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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The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
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To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We’ve got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.
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