Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.
RYAN HOLIDAYDollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
More Ryan Holiday Quotes
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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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You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.
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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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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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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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Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.
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Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.
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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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Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.
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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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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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The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.
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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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ADVERSITY CAN HARDEN YOU. OR IT CAN LOOSEN YOU UP AND MAKE YOU BETTER —IF YOU LET IT.
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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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