Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
RYAN HOLIDAYAn entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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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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Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.
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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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We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
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Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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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 most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
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Great times are great softeners.
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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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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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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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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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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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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.
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