Ryan Holiday (b.1987) is an American author, marketer, and entrepreneur.
Born in Sacramento, California, Holiday dropped out of college at the age 19 and became the Director of Marketing at American Apparel at the age of 21.
A popular media columnist, Holiday has written in Forbes, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Guardian, Thought Catalog, Medium.com, and the New York Observer. He wrote Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator (2012.)
Since 2014, Holiday has led a popular revival of stoicism in the United States—his acclaimed bestsellers include The Obstacle is the Way (2014,) Ego is the Enemy (2016,) and The Daily Stoic (2016.) His latest book is Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts (2017.)
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All great victories, be they in politics, business, art, or seduction, involved resolving vexing problems with a potent cocktail of creativity, focus, and daring. When you have a goal, obstacles are actually teaching you how to get where you want to go—carving you a path. “The Things which hurt,” Benjamin Franklin wrote, “instruct.”
—Ryan Holiday
It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit. To know you want to quit but to plant your feet and keep inching closer until you take the impenetrable fortress you’ve decided to lay siege to in your own life—that’s persistence.
—Ryan Holiday
Life is defined by how much you do, how often you took the difficult road and were rewarded for it.
—Ryan Holiday