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" One of the ironies of being with someone you really love for a long time is becoming completely incapable of handling stressful or difficult things by yourself. "

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" The essential idea of Stoicism in my interpretation is, you don't control the world around you, you control how you respond. At 19, that's very empowering. "

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" I don't play videogames and generally think that online activism is a giant waste of time. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" As authors, we're all trying to fight against obscurity and outside distractions, but it's a tough battle. "

" The problem with a lot of marketing advice is that the examples they use are not exactly typical. It's hard for businesses, particularly smaller businesses, to relate to the bold innovations of companies like Apple or Tesla. "

" Everyone faces adversity. "

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

" We need to separate marketing messages from content. We need to enforce a clear line between 'editorial' and 'advertising.' "

" 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. "

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" What people often forget is that for the parties involved, the media game is a vicious contest. "

" If you run a business that isn't cutting edge or doesn't naturally stick out of the crowd, it's your job to be different and get attention. "

" 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. "

" If you're shameless enough, you can sell anything. "

" Every job carries occupational hazards. "

" I know how hard authors work on their books and how far out of their element many are when it comes to doing the sales and marketing. So when I see someone doing it wrong and giving bad advice, I do my best to help - even when they're not my clients. "

" Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment. "

" My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself. "

" 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. "

" Growth hacking is the future of marketing. It has to be. "

" Growth hackers don't tolerate waste. "

" 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. "

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" I have a pet goat. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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