Ryan Holiday
30 statements across 6 episodes · 9 bullish · 5 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 30, 2021 by Sam Parr · said 58 times in 15 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Sam Parr (33), Shaan Puri (23), Eric Glyman (1), Andrew Wilkinson (1)
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2025 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
2024 22 mentions in 3 episodes 7 per episode
2023 1 mention in 1 episode
2022 20 mentions in 4 episodes 5 per episode
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- This Guy Went From $0 to Billionaire By Starting A Toy Factory In China (#372)
- The 2022 Milly Awards (#401)
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2021 13 mentions in 5 episodes 3 per episode
- This Year's Best Twitter Accounts to Follow
- How to Make Millions by Unbundling Etsy | My First Million #207
- How Course Businesses Work & How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions | My First Million #183
- How an Astrology App Makes $10m+ & Why a Boxing Announcer is Worth $400m | My First Million #182
- Unbundling Disney, Why CNN is Just Like the WWE, YouTube Creator Camps, and More
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
Everything said about Ryan Holiday, oldest first
Nov 30, 2021 neutral
Parr: Peter Thiel employed lawyers for a decade waiting to sue Gawker
“Peter Thiel basically employed this Three lawyers, big shot lawyers, and they're, and basically when he was outed as gay by Gawker, he employed, and this is a great book by Ryan holiday. I forget what it's called, but he employed these three lawyers and I forg…”
Jan 28, 2022 neutral
Puri: People Pursuing Mindfulness and Stoicism Are Usually Still Seeking Calmness
“Usually when I find people who are gravitating towards things like meditation and stoicism and you know, micro dosing psychedelics, they feel like they're still on the search for that calmness. He felt like he found the calmness, and that was kind of the disti…”
Feb 8, 2022
Feb 8, 2022 negative
Holiday: Self-prescribing psychotropics to heal trauma risks irreversible brain damage
“I don't think you should fuck with your brain the way some of these people are fucking with their brains, and I think it's gonna, I think we're starting to see some of the ramifications of it with some of the stuff we're talking about here, but I think this is…”
Feb 8, 2022
Holiday lied about his debut advance to expose media negligence
“It was, I think it was 200 with some incentives. Although when I announced it I announced that it had been sold for 500,000 dollars because I know, I knew people, nobody actually fact checks press releases. So yeah. So, so the whole point of the book was to pr…”
Feb 8, 2022 neutral
Feb 8, 2022
Holiday: Retail is the least important revenue stream for his bookstore property
“So opening the bookstore that like, that making money from selling books might be the third or fourth, like least important revenue stream or use of the property, like the office being number one The space to film and make stuff like content being number two, …”
Feb 8, 2022
Holiday: Elite performance with a normal life is harder than obsessive dedication
“Being really great at what you do and somehow managing to be, like, a somewhat normal person to me is actually, like, a rarer thing to do than to just be great at what you, like, I think if anyone decided to be, like, Tom Brady's Tom Brady, but there's a cost …”
Feb 8, 2022
Feb 8, 2022 positive
Feb 8, 2022 positive
Feb 8, 2022 positive
Holiday's debut book took ten years to earn out its publisher advance
“It will probably earn out its advance By this summer, which will be the 10th anniversary of it, like, by the, I'm, it's looking like the royalty statement I will get in July of 20, 22, which will be the 10 year anniversary of the book. It will finally go from …”
Feb 8, 2022 positive
Ryan Holiday: All Daily Stoic products are manufactured in the US
“I could get them done. We were talking about margins. They would be much cheaper for me to make them in, in large books, like from China. But we haven't done that. We've always used this original place. I wanted to do made in USA, but then, and then as it happ…”
Feb 8, 2022
Oct 4, 2022 negative
Oct 4, 2022 bullish
Oct 4, 2022 negative
Holiday: Bestseller lists do not meaningfully drive direct book sales
“There is, I think people tell themselves a story about how being on the list helps them sell more copies. But as someone who buys a lot of books and talks to a lot of people who buy a lot of books, I have never once heard of someone buying a book because they …”
Oct 4, 2022
Holiday: 'The Obstacle Is the Way' took 5 to 6 years to hit 1M copies
“I know it crossed the 100,000 copies mark within the first year, because there was a bonus attached to it. So it took, you know, 12 months to sell a 100,000 copies, but it probably took an additional four to five years before it crossed the one million copy ma…”
Oct 4, 2022 negative
Holiday: Prefers Book Newsletter Over Subscription Club Due to Margins
“I just prefer to like, look, if you want to buy the book from my bookstore, I make a little bit of money doing that. If you buy it from Amazon, I get the commission, but I'd much rather just have that list in that audience than try to monetize a book club itse…”
Oct 4, 2022
Oct 4, 2022
Oct 4, 2022
Holiday: Achieving financial success makes you more risk averse, not courageous
“Well, you think that being successful will make you more courageous because you are more secure, but it actually, the rational response to having a lot is to become more risk averse because you know how hard it was to get it.”
Oct 4, 2022
Oct 4, 2022 positive
Oct 4, 2022
Holiday: Business books confer more elite recognition than huge YouTube followings
“The interesting thing about books is that they sort of punch above their weight culturally. It's like the opera or something. Right. And so like you could be very famous on YouTube and your average billionaire might not know who you are, but if you write like …”
Oct 4, 2022 negative
Holiday: Publicly disclosing deal numbers has no benefits and creates targets
“Telling people how much money I made from it. It makes you a target makes you weird. You know, it could somehow be seen as selling out or something. But then the other part I thought, I don't want people, this is an idea that's going to take me four plus years…”
Sep 4, 2023 positive
Mar 4, 2024
Puri: Ryan Holiday is the biggest customer of a major US mint
“And he also said that he works with some mint in the United States. And I guess it's one of the old famous coin mints. And he, I think he was like their biggest customer also. Like he's like, they're minting more of his momentum worry coin than they are anythi…”
Mar 4, 2024 positive
Physical coins cost $1 to produce and retail for $25.
“And a coin is a great product to sell because it costs 25 bucks to sell. It costs like a dollar to make. It ships for whatever, a stamp, two stamps. So however much that is, 80 cents. There's no returns. There's no sizes. It's just like the easiest thing ever …”
Mar 4, 2024 positive
Ryan Holiday makes more from Daily Stoic merch than book sales.
“Ryan Holiday wrote a book on stoicism. He's written six or seven now at this point, but he has this other property. It's a daily newsletter called the Daily Stoic, where they sell coins and merch and advertisements. He has told me that that has made more money…”