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" Brands are essentially forbidden from saying or associating themselves with the Olympics - something that has been commonly owned by Western Civilization since the Greeks - unless they hand over piles of cash to the Games. "

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" Even people who despise ego and aspire to humility, who plan to be humble once they are successful, are worried that actually enacting those beliefs would sentence them to a life of obscurity or weakness or failure. "

Ryan Holiday

Life

People

Humility

" I took the 'Seinfeld' tour of New York once - and if I think about it too hard, my brain explodes. "

" Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action. "

" Growth hackers don't tolerate waste. "

" Philosophy is not just about talking or lecturing or even reading long, dense books. In fact, it is something men and women of action use - and have used throughout history - to solve their problems and achieve their greatest triumphs. Not in the classroom but on the battlefield, in the forum, and at court. "

" Reddit is like any democratic form of government - unless carefully guarded by its leaders and members, its trusts and privileges can be and often are abused. "

Ryan Holiday

Democratic

Leaders

" As tough an idea as it often is to stomach, the best way to thrive in a world that requires grunt work is to stop seeing it as grunt work. "

" You know what's better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life. "

" No matter how commonplace or dull your first job's duties seem, chances are you can find something to do that others don't want to and make it your own. "

" Anyone who faults Romney or Obama or any public figure for demanding quote approval is missing the point. The journalists were no abused weaklings here. They made a bargain for access to these newsworthy figures that they thought was in their favor - they're only complaining because they got caught. "

" The best kind of marketing messages are the ones that don't seem like marketing messages. Because it means that the viewers' defenses are down. "

Ryan Holiday

Seem

Marketing

" Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don't understand. "

" My parents disagreed sharply with me over the decision to leave school. "

Ryan Holiday

Decision

Leave

" The reality is that the economic situation for millennials is not a good one. "

" Virality is not an accident. It is engineered. And that's why growth hackers beat traditional marketers. "

" Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory. "

" Ego is certainly there in many of the greatest and most dizzying tales of success - but it's there in some of the greatest stories of failure and self-implosion as well. "

" Dr. Drew Pinsky changed my life. "

Ryan Holiday

Changed

Drew

" If you ask most smart or successful people where they learned their craft, they will not talk to you about their time in school. It's always a mentor, a particularly transformative job, or a period of experimentation or trial and error. "

" Growth hacking is a mindset, and those who have it will reap incredible gains. "

" I made a lot of money and had a great time playing with the words that make up the news. I exploited the laziness behind the news and people's reading habits. "

" If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four. "

" Virality, at its core, is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free. "

" Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process. "

" If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions? "

" Here's the thing I've learned about ideas: It's your job to have them. "

" I love books. Probably too much for my own good. "

" Do I regret how my life turned out? Of course not - not for a single second. "

" Life is hard, but we make it much harder. "

" The media, when it's functioning properly, protects the public against marketers and their ceaseless attempts to trick people into buying things. "