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.
RYAN HOLIDAYAn entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
-
-
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.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
True will is quiet humility, resilience, and flexibility; the other kind of will is weakness disguised by bluster and ambition.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
RYAN HOLIDAY -
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.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
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.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
Where the head goes, the body follows. Perception precedes action. Right action follows the right perspective.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
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.
RYAN HOLIDAY -
Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
RYAN HOLIDAY