Too often we react emotionally, get despondent, and lose our perspective. All that does is turn bad things into really bad things. Unhelpful perceptions can invade our minds – that sacred place of reason, action and will – and throw off our compasses.

— Ryan Holiday

Ryan Holiday Quotes

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

— Ryan Holiday

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

— Ryan Holiday

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

— Ryan Holiday
Opportunity Empowering Obstacles Resilience Challenges

Conning the conmen is one of life’s most satisfying pleasures.

— Ryan Holiday

I run 5 miles every night. It’s where I go to digest my day, hash out the multitude of information that’s been poured into me in the last wild six months or so, and to try and condense it down to some sort of cohesive strategy to live my life by.

— Ryan Holiday

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book.

— Ryan Holiday

An entrepreneur is someone with faith in their ability to make something where there was nothing before.

— Ryan Holiday

Am I saying this because I want to prove how smart I am or am I saying this because it needs to be said?

— Ryan Holiday

Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.

— Ryan Holiday

Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation – without the pestilence of panic or fear.

— Ryan Holiday

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

— Ryan Holiday

We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.

— Ryan Holiday

Our first idea is a grand opening, a big launch, a press release, or major media coverage. We default to thinking we need an advertising budget. Our delusion is that we should be Transformers and not The Blair Witch Project.

— Ryan Holiday

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune – really anything, everything – to their advantage.

— Ryan Holiday

Failure shows us the way – by showing us what isn’t the way.

— Ryan Holiday
Failure

What I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason – because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.

— Ryan Holiday

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.

— Ryan Holiday

Great times are great softeners.

— Ryan Holiday

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

— Ryan Holiday

What is known can’t jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

— Ryan Holiday
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