626 Quotes by Ryan Holiday

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    What is better than these two extremes - ego and imposter syndrome - but simple confidence? Earned. Rational. Objective. Still.

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    With buybacks, a CEO is making a rather incredible statement. She's saying: the market is wrong. It's valuing our company so incorrectly, and clearly has so little idea where we are heading that we're going to spend the company's precious cash on a bet that they're wrong.

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    Publishers and advertisers can't differentiate between the types of impressions an ad does on a site. A perusing reader is no better than an accidental reader. An article that provides worthwhile advice is no more valuable than one instantly forgotten. So long as the page loads and the ads are seen, both sides are fulfilling their purpose. A click is a click.

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    You are born free - free of stuff, free of burden. But since the first time they measured your tiny body for clothes, people have been foisting stuff upon you. And you've been adding links to the pule of chains yourself ever since.

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    This is a fundamental irony of most people’s lives. They don’t quite know what they want to do with their lives. Yet they are very active.

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    You cannot have your news instantly and have it done well. You cannot have your news reduced to 140 characters or less without losing large parts of it. You cannot manipulate the news but not expect it to be manipulated against you. You cannot have your news for free; you can only obscure the costs. If as a culture we can learn this lesson, and if we can learn to love the hard work, we will save ourselves much trouble and collateral damage. We must remember: There is no easy way.

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