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Ryan Holiday

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Author of 'Ego is the Enemy' & 'The Obstacle Is The Way'.
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1,219 quotes curated by Ryan Holiday:

“The 3 and a half years of business training I had in that commission house formed a large part of the foundation of my business training.”
— John D. Rockefeller, Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years
Tagged: Obstacles
“There is good in everything, if only we look for it.”
— Laura Ingalls Wilder, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Farm Journalist: Writings from the Ozarks
Tagged: Perspective, Inspirational, Positivity
“To separate the most pure gold of truth from every debasing alloy.”
— James Abbott, Great British Adventurers
Tagged: Prejudice
“Our whole life it is the present and the present alone that we actually possess.”
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer
Tagged: present
“He goes through the forest and sees no firewood.”
— Russian Proverb, The Biblical Encyclopedia: A Collection of Notes, Explanatory, Homiletic and Illustrative Forming a Complete Commentary on the Holy Scriptures, 3 Volumes
Tagged: Perception
“Pretend it happened to someone else. How would you explain it to them? What advice would you give them?”
— Epictetus, Discourses, Fragments, Handbook (Oxford Worlds Classics)
Tagged: Perspective
“You see people dropping out of the workforce and you see people try to start their own business.”
— Bernard Weinstein, Laid-off workers are becoming their own bosses
Tagged: Perspective
“His [Rockefeller's] secret was: Power of foresight.

It comes simply from his habit of looking at every side of a question, of weighing the favorable and unfavorable features of a situation and of sifting out the inevitable result through his unfairly good judgment.”
— Orison Swett Marden, How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves
Tagged: Success
“The popular idea of multi-millionaire is a man who has taken big risks and has come out lucky. He is a living refutation of his conception. He is careful and cautious by nature, and he had made these traits habitual.”
— Orison Swett Marden, How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves
Tagged: Success
“There is nothing impulsive or bombastic about him [Rockefeller]. But his conversation impresses one consistency of about 100% of cold, compact, boiled down common sense.”
— Orison Swett Marden, How they succeeded : life stories of successful men told by themselves
Tagged: Success