15 Powerful Ryan Holiday Quotes About Success and Failure
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About Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holiday is an American marketer and author He is the former director of marketing for American Apparel and a media columnist and editor-at-large for the New York Observer.
Ryan Holiday is the bestselling author of Trust Me, I’m Lying; The Obstacle Is the Way; Ego Is the Enemy and other books about marketing, culture, and the human condition. (Get the Ryan Holiday Audiobooks for free.)
Holiday, through his books, articles, and lectures, has been credited by the New York Times with the increasing popularity of stoicism. He was also described as “leading the charge for stoicism,” which has been noted for gaining traction among Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. (1) His work has been translated into over 30 languages and has appeared everywhere from the New York Times to Fast Company.
Ryan Holiday Quotes
Here are the most powerful success lessons from the Ryan Holiday quotes:
Failure shows us the way — by showing us what isn’t the way.
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Failure really can be an asset if what you’re trying to do is improve, learn, or do something new.
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On the path to successful action, we will fail — possibly many times. And that’s okay. It can be a good thing, even. Action and failure are two sides of the same coin. One doesn’t come without the other. What breaks this critical connection down is when people stop acting — because they’ve taken failure the wrong way.
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As we first succeed, we will find ourselves in new situations, facing new problems.
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If ego is the voice that tells us we’re better than we really are, we can say ego inhibits true success by preventing a direct and honest connection to the world around us.
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Aspiration leads to success (and adversity). Success creates its own adversity (and, hopefully, new ambitions). And adversity leads to aspiration and more success. It’s an endless loop.
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Think progress, not perfection.
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The only real failure is abandoning your principles. Killing what you love because you can’t bear to part from it is selfish and stupid. If your reputation can’t absorb a few blows, it wasn’t worth anything in the first place.
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People learn from their failures. Seldom do they learn anything from success.
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In failure or adversity, it’s so easy to hate. Hate defers blame. It makes someone else responsible. It’s a distraction too; we don’t do much else when we’re busy getting revenge or investigating the wrongs that have supposedly been done to us.
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Most successful people are people you’ve never heard of. They want it that way. It keeps them sober. It helps them do their jobs.
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When success begins to slip from your fingers — for whatever reason — the response isn’t to grip and claw so hard that you shatter it to pieces. It’s to understand that you must work yourself back to the aspirational phase. You must get back to first principles and best practices.
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Ego is the enemy of what you want and of what you have: Of mastering a craft. Of real creative insight. Of working well with others. Of building loyalty and support. Of longevity. Of repeating and retaining your success.
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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.
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Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.
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When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
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