Ryan Holiday Quotes

I'm a hustler, baby; I sell water to a well!

My dad being a salesman taught me you can sell anybody anything if you've got the ability to believe.

A lot of drive is innate, self-perpetuated, reinforced energy. As a kid, I could always sell anything I could get my hands on - from newspapers to lemonade to 'TV Guide.' I knew how to make a presentation.

I can sell anything to anyone. That is actually my superpower. I am really good at negotiating and persuading.

We are all advertising, all of the time. If you want to sell your car, what do you do? You clean and polish it and make it the best you can. Some people bake bread when they are trying to sell their house because the smell adds a friendly feeling. Even the priest, with all his or her fervour, is advertising God. Everybody is selling.

I just have this sort of entrepreneurial spirit and I work really hard at promoting myself.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

It takes great salesmanship to convince a customer to buy something from you that isn't built or isn't finished.

I find a way to convince people to come along with me. They want to be persuaded. When I sit in a room with you I'm going to sell you something whether you want it or not. At the end you'll say: 'I'm glad I bought that.'

Those who tell us to be in touch with our own desires are often merely trying to make us believe that what we want is the thing that they are selling. […] We're used to that kind of persuasion, for political candidates as well as commercial products.

I know how to pitch.

I can sell anything. I'm very convincing.

People will buy snake oil from anybody who seems to be selling it in a persuasive way.

I do voiceovers, but being on-camera and selling something? I wasn't really interested. And then I thought, well, wait a minute. Everybody's selling something. When you turn on the tube... And then if you go to Europe or Asia, everyone is selling something. All the guys that don't want to be seen selling something here are selling something there. So I thought what the hell?

All Marketers are liars tell stories.

I like having to figure out how to pull things off, how to sell it, how to make it look real, but not just real, make it look better.

Something I stand for is being brave enough to invest in creative ideas that I firmly believe in and bringing those to life.

Sell yourself first, if you want to sell anything.

Creativity and business acumen don't always go hand in hand.

You have to be very brave and very entrepreneurial - you have to dare to create your own brand.

I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

It is the creative and enterprising spirit of people that is indispensable. Everything else is supplemental.

I'm a pitchman, my business comes from the pitch, nothing else.

I'm relentless. My mother says I could sell ice to the Eskimos.

If someone likes you, they'll buy what you're selling, whether or not they need it.