The most powerful predictor of what spreads online is anger.
RYAN HOLIDAYDollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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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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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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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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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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The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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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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Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
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What 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.
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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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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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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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When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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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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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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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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