626 Quotes by Ryan Holiday

Take pride in your work. But it is not all there is.

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

My neighbors don't care that I'm an author. It's inherently ego-inhibiting.

You can't believe your own marketing.

It angers me to see armed defenders at the bottom of Lost Cause statues, adding a renewed threat of violence to icons that are themselves part of an ideology of violence and intimidation.

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.

Growth-hacking is about scalability - ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users.

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

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.