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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 069a87b | Where little danger is apprehended, the more the enemy will be unprepared and consequently there is the fairest prospect of success. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 5c53570 | Freedom? That's easy. It's in your choices. Happiness? That's easy. It's in your choices. Respect of your peers? That too is in the choices you make. | stoic | Ryan Holiday | |
| 2806870 | Take a step back, then go around the problem. Find some leverage. Approach from what is called the "line of least expectation." What's your first instinct when faced with a challenge? Is it to outspend the competition? Argue with people in an attempt to change long-held opinions? Are you trying to barge through the front door? Because the back door, side doors, and windows may have been left wide open. Whatever" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| aa0739c | Part of the reason why a certain skill often seems so effortless for great masters is not just because they've mastered the process--they really are doing less than the rest of us who don't know any better. They choose to exert only calculated force where it will be effective, rather than straining and struggling with pointless attrition tactics. As someone | Ryan Holiday | ||
| bb84176 | Or you create an alterative with so much support from other people that the opposition voluntarily abandons its views and joins your camp. The | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a6c505b | Believe me, it's better to produce the balance-sheet of your own life than that of the grain market." --SENECA, ON THE BREVITY OF LIFE, 18.3b T" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4e220ad | Seneca observes how often powerful people are slaves to their money, to their positions, to their mistresses, even--as was legal in Rome--to their slaves. "No" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c187722 | What you must do is learn how to press forward precisely when everyone around you sees disaster. It | Ryan Holiday | ||
| db28097 | him. "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. Things that we had postponed for too long, that were long-term, are now immediate and must be dealt with. [A] crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before." If" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| c94691c | Ordinary people shy away from 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. But this crisis in front of you? You're wasting it feeling sorry for yourself, feeling tired or disappointed. You forget: Life speeds on the bold and favors.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6c2fc3f | Zeno would also say that nothing is more hostile to a firm grasp on knowledge than self-deception." --DIOGENES LAERTIUS, LIVES OF THE EMINENT PHILOSOPHERS, 7.23" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a9254d8 | Rommel, for instance, was renowned for his Fronter-fuhring, his sixth sense for the decisive point in battle. He had an acute ability to feel--even in the heat of the moment--the precise instance when going on the offensive would be most effective. It's what allowed him to, repeatedly and often unbelievably, snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Where others saw disaster or, at best, simply the normal noise and dust of a battle, Rommel se.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 83f7376 | Great commanders look for decision points. For it is bursts of energy directed at decisive points that break things wide open. They | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ec81427 | If action is what we do when we still have some agency over our situation, the will is what we depend on when agency has all but disappeared. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 74a1352 | If someone we knew took traffic signals personally, we would judge them insane. Yet | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 9f993ee | Sabes cual es la peor decision que se puede tomar en marketing? Empezar a trabajar en un producto que no quiere nadie. Durante | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a27b604 | which is to say, stand with the philosopher, or else with the mob!" --EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 3.15.13 W" -- | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7d38437 | listen to Marcus Aurelius's empowering call to "get active in your own rescue--if you care for yourself at all--and do it while you can." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6c802a6 | the best way to get to Product Market Fit is by starting with an "MVP" and improving it based on feedback--as opposed to what many traditional marketers do, which is to try to launch with what we think is our final product." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 2414c86 | You must realize: Nothing makes us feel this way; we choose to give in to such feelings. Or, like Rockefeller, choose not to. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 06801fe | In every situation, that which blocks our path actually presents a new path with a new part of us. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| fff65ea | It doesn't make you a bad person to want to be remembered. To want to make it to the top. To provide for yourself and your family. After all, that's all part of the allure. There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back. | humility team-spirit teamwork | Ryan Holiday | |
| a61973e | Focusing exclusively on what is in our power magnifies and enhances our power. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0ed8008 | But what is philosophy? Doesn't it simply mean preparing ourselves for what may come? Don't you understand that really amounts to saying that if I would so prepare myself to endure, then let anything happen that will? Otherwise, it would be like the boxer exiting the ring because he took some punches. Actually, you can leave the boxing ring without consequence, but what advantage would come from abandoning the pursuit of wisdom? So, what sh.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ae17821 | Does what happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforwardness? Nope. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4ead1c1 | why should customers do that? Have you actually made it easy for them to spread your product? Is the product even worth talking about? | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0a6c368 | Bear and forbear. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 0aee550 | What's the point of having countless books and libraries, whose titles could hardly be read through in a lifetime. The learner is not taught, but burdened by the sheer volume, and it's better to plant the seeds of a few authors than to be scattered about by many." --SENECA, ON TRANQUILITY OF MIND, 9.4 T" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 346cc78 | Are you angry when someone's armpits stink or when their breath is bad? What would be the point? Having such a mouth and such armpits, there's going to be a smell emanating. You say, they must have sense, can't they tell how they are offending others? Well, you have sense too, congratulations! So, use your natural reason to awaken theirs, show them, call it out. If the person will listen, you will have cured them without useless anger. No d.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d3a26b6 | There is a balance. Soccer coach Tony Adams expresses it well. Play for the name on the front of the jersey, he says, and they'll remember the name on the back. When | Ryan Holiday | ||
| aefe99b | it not only has to be worth spreading, it has to provoke a desire in people to spread it. Until you have accomplished that, or until your client is doing something truly remarkable, it just isn't going to happen. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 10e9558 | Prefiero la disciplina del conocimiento a la anarquia de la ignorancia. Perseguimos el conocimiento de la misma forma en que un cerdo persigue trufas. --David Ogilvy | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 50cc786 | If you start believing in your greatness, it is the death of your creativity. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 399d12a | The reality is that we're all guilty of thinking we know it all, and we'd all learn more if we could set that attitude aside. As smart or successful as we may be, there is always someone who is smarter, more successful, and wiser than us. Emerson put it well: "Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him." | Ryan Holiday | ||
| f2b636d | You need the kind of objectivity that makes you forget everything you've heard, clear the table, and do a factual study like a scientist would. --STEVE | Ryan Holiday | ||
| d8b212b | Here's a way to think about what the masses regard as being 'good' things. If you would first start by setting your mind upon things that are unquestionably good--wisdom, self-control, justice, courage--with this preconception you'll no longer be able to listen to the popular refrain that there are too many good things to experience in a lifetime." --MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 5.12 I" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 6130b7f | Laura Ingalls Wilder, author of the classic series Little House, lived that idea, facing some of the toughest and unwelcoming elements on the planet: harsh and unyielding soil, Indian territory, Kansas prairies, and the humid backwoods of Florida. Not afraid, not jaded--because she saw it all as an adventure. Everywhere was a chance to do something new, to persevere with cheery pioneer spirit whatever fate befell her and her husband. That i.. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 7630dd8 | Nothing can ever prevent us from trying. Ever. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| ba21873 | Virality at its core is asking someone to spend their social capital recommending or linking or posting about you for free. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| b4f39b0 | The best strategic marketing decision you can make is to have a product or business fulfill a real, compelling need for a real and defined group of people--no matter how much tweaking and refining this takes. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a6fd241 | He would make much of his fortune during these market fluctuations--because he could see while others could not. This insight lives on today in Warren Buffet's famous adage to "be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." Rockefeller, like all great investors, could resist impulse in favor of cold, hard common sense. One" | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 496da4f | We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out. -- THEODORE ROOSEVELT | Ryan Holiday | ||
| a33f8fe | Duris dura franguntur. | Ryan Holiday | ||
| 4e6f784 | An employee in your company makes a careless mistake that costs you business. This can be exactly what you spend so much time and effort trying to avoid. Or, with a shift in perception, it can be exactly what you were looking for--the chance to pierce through defenses and teach a lesson that can be learned only by experience. A mistake becomes training. Again, the event is the same: Someone messed up. But the evaluation and the outcome are .. | Ryan Holiday |