Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Times change. Context changes. Just because something is old and a 'part of our history' shouldn't mean we are forced to honor it forever. "
Ryan Holiday
History
Honor
Change
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Ryan Holiday
Advice
Apple
Bold
" Bloggers are lazy and greedy. "
Ryan Holiday
Bloggers
Lazy
Greedy
" 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. "
Ryan Holiday
Interpretation
You
How
" 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. "
Ryan Holiday
Someone
Yourself
You
" Stoicism is a philosophy designed for the masses, and if it has to be simplified a bit to reach the masses, so be it. "
Ryan Holiday
Reach
Masses
Bit
" 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. "
Ryan Holiday
Work
Tough
Thrive
" I don't play videogames and generally think that online activism is a giant waste of time. "
Ryan Holiday
Giant
Time
Play
" Here's the thing I've learned about ideas: It's your job to have them. "
Ryan Holiday
About
Learned
Job
" I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior. "
Ryan Holiday
Behavior
Fact
Standards
" 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
" 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
Like
Marketing
" Our facts aren't fact; they are opinions dressed up like facts. Our opinions aren't opinions; they are emotions that feel like opinions. Our information isn't information; it's just hastily assembled symbols. "
Ryan Holiday
Facts
Emotions
Opinions
" Stoicism - and philosophy - are not the domains of idle professors. They are the succor of the successful and the men and women of action. "
Ryan Holiday
Men
Successful
Action
" 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. "
Ryan Holiday
Approval
Complaining
Missing
" Growth hackers don't tolerate waste. "
Ryan Holiday
Growth
Tolerate
Hackers
" 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. "
Ryan Holiday
Failure
Greatest
Stories
" Being criticized in the media is a good problem to have - most of the time. It means you're doing something that is at least interesting or cool or crazy enough to be noticed. It might not always feel good, but it's usually better than the alternative of obscurity. "
Ryan Holiday
Crazy
Good
Cool
" 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
" What I've found in my research is that realism and self-honesty are the antidote to ego, hubris, and delusion. "
Ryan Holiday
Delusion
Research
Realism
" 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
You
Need
" My advice to young people would be this: Don't move to New York. It is not where you will find yourself. "
Ryan Holiday
Yourself
Advice
New York
" The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth. "
Ryan Holiday
Mouth
First Time
You
" 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. "
Ryan Holiday
Work
Advice
Know
" Let's be clear: there was no golden age of journalism. The media has always been bad. And instead of improving, it spent a lot of time and energy making up its own myth. "
Ryan Holiday
Time
Age
Energy
" 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
" The reality is that the economic situation for millennials is not a good one. "
Ryan Holiday
Situation
Good
Millennials
" When work impedes on sleep, poor planning is to blame - not superior will power. "
Ryan Holiday
Planning
Work
Power
" Growth-hacking is about scalability - ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users. "
Ryan Holiday
Want
Marketing
Bring
" Every job carries occupational hazards. "
Ryan Holiday
Job
Occupational
Hazards
" Understanding how the media actually works is critical. Because editors depend on ignorance and media illiteracy to ply their trade. The fact that many readers expect fact checking, editorial oversight, and ethics actually makes it easier for the media to be lazy. "
Ryan Holiday
Media
Ignorance
Ethics