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" If you need to fudge the facts a little bit to make your narrative work, there is nothing anyone can do to stop you. "
Ryan Holiday
Stop
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" Everyone faces adversity. "
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" Work hard, take it seriously, embrace your ambition. And when you're not doing that, do something - whatever it happens to be - that taps into the part of you that makes you forget about all the rest of it. "
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You
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Ambition
" You can't believe your own marketing. "
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Marketing
You
Your
" Growth hackers don't tolerate waste. "
Ryan Holiday
Growth
Tolerate
Hackers
" Growth hackers are typically computer engineers that build great marketing ideas into the product during the development process. "
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Build
Growth
" We want things to go perfectly, so we naturally tell ourselves that we'll get started once the conditions are right or once we have our bearings, when, really, it would be better to focus on making do with how things actually are. "
Ryan Holiday
Want
Go
Tell
" When I dropped out of school at 19 to start my first job in Hollywood, I didn't know anything, and I had no idea where I'd end up. Thankfully, I was attached to some smart and forgiving people who let me learn under them. "
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Job
School
End
" In 2007, I went to work in Beverly Hills as an intern at The Collective, a talent management agency. I'd been scouted for the job because of a blog I'd started in college and because the blogger-turned-author I worked for, Tucker Max, was producing a project with the company. "
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Management
Job
College
" If the media is a farce, why should you be the only one stuck with rules and restrictions? "
Ryan Holiday
Why
Stuck
You
" We need to separate marketing messages from content. We need to enforce a clear line between 'editorial' and 'advertising.' "
Ryan Holiday
Content
Marketing
Advertising
" There has to be something about your business that gets you excited. Otherwise, you probably wouldn't have spent your precious - irreplaceable - time on it. "
Ryan Holiday
Excited
Business
You
" Take pride in your work. But it is not all there is. "
Ryan Holiday
Work
Take
Pride
" Bloggers are lazy and greedy. "
Ryan Holiday
Bloggers
Lazy
Greedy
" My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting. "
Ryan Holiday
Author
Neighbors
Inherently
" 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. "
Ryan Holiday
Men
History
Women
" The greats - they protect their sleep because it's where the best work comes from. They say no to things. They turn in when they hit their limits. They don't let the creep of sleep deprivation undermine their judgment. "
Ryan Holiday
Best
Sleep
They Say
" Online journalism has always had a sourcing problem. From using unverified 'anonymous tips' to repeating whatever rumor or speculation people are chattering about, the general ethic is, 'We'll publish just about anything.' "
Ryan Holiday
People
Problem
Journalism
" When work impedes on sleep, poor planning is to blame - not superior will power. "
Ryan Holiday
Planning
Work
Power
" In June 2007, I finished up school for the year. I didn't know it at the time, but I was done with college forever. By the end of the summer, I had dropped out and would not return. "
Ryan Holiday
School
College
End
" The idea that only the swaggering, all-knowing, and ruthlessly ambitious succeed is a lie. One that has discouraged so many people with so much potential - and worse, encouraged many more to crash and burn. "
Ryan Holiday
Potential
Burn
Lie
" Growth hacking is the future of marketing. It has to be. "
Ryan Holiday
Growth
Marketing
Hacking
" 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
" Like pretty much every other ambitious person, I always figured I'd eventually move to New York. It is, at this point, half-dream and half-obligation for people trying to do big things. It's the American Dream inside the American Dream. "
Ryan Holiday
American Dream
People
Dream
" When I lived in Louisiana, 'Django Unchained' was shot at my neighbor's house. They shot a Sly Stallone movie in my gym. "
Ryan Holiday
Neighbor
Lived
House
" Like most reasonable people, it saddens me when I see Americans celebrating a heritage they don't understand. "
Ryan Holiday
People
See
Understand
" The reality is that the economic situation for millennials is not a good one. "
Ryan Holiday
Situation
Good
Millennials
" 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. "
Ryan Holiday
Discipline
Victory
Writing
" Watching well-meaning authors follow in the footsteps of someone going in the wrong direction breaks my heart. "
Ryan Holiday
Someone
Direction
Follow
" What people often forget is that for the parties involved, the media game is a vicious contest. "
Ryan Holiday
Media
Forget
People
" Every media appearance is a learning experience about the media outlet and their journalists and their feelings about you, so treat it as such. "
Ryan Holiday
Treat
Learning
Media