Casey Neistat has captivated not just the hearts and souls of New York, but the entire global over the last decade through his hugely popular YouTube channel.
Even here in Australia, just about everyone in the entrepreneurial scene has heard of Casey. I’ve been busy collecting these inspiring quotes for you to start living an epic life today.
Best Quotes by YouTuber Casey Neistat
1. Free time is the enemy of progress.
2. If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re doing it wrong.
3. I never want money that I didn’t earn.
4. Some distance can really make you appreciate what you have.
5. A shared life is a great life.
6. Experience does for the soul what education does for the mind.
7. Being nice takes work. That’s why I really like people who are nice.
8. Keep yourself extremely busy. As long as you’re doing something you will find your path.
9. Look back at your life. It’s always the hardest times that made you who you are.
10. Overthinking the process will kill any career in the creative space. You just have to do, not think.
11. Someday I won’t be able to do this. The right time is now
12. I won’t hire someone or date a girl who has not worked in a restaurant, and that’s the honest truth. I don’t think you know how it is until you’ve worked in a restaurant.
13. You either act on ideas or you set them free. You don’t dwell on ideas.
14. Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
15. It’s a lot easier to be mean than to be nice. So mean people, on top of being jerks, are also lazy and uninventive.
16. Free time is the enemy of progress.
17. If it is broken fix it. If you don’t like it change it. And if you want something take it. Don’t complain about it. Do something about it.
18. Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.
19. The biggest risk is to take no risk at all.
20. The only way you can sleep at work is if you own the company.
21. There are always good reasons not to do things, but if you really believe that there’s something you have to do, the universe has a way of making it okay.
22. Life shrinks and expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
23. I never want to be comfortable, I never want to feel safe – -that is the fast track to being irrelevant. I want to keep it fresh. I want to mix it up.
24. I have a rule. Ignore praise, embrace criticism. I never seek compliment, its generally a dead-end.
25. To sit around and say, I’m not motivated so I can’t do anything, to me is the same thing as being like, I’m so hungry I can’t eat. The only way you’re going to alleviate your hunger is to eat some food, the only way to fix your motivational problem is to do something.
26. I was always the guy who jumped off the roof of the garage, who could climb up the facade of a building.
27. If you’re fit now, take advantage of it. If you have a free hour, take advantage of it. If you have an idea now, take advantage of it. All those things are fleeting and all those things are temporary.
28. Story is king. Everything else is slave to story.
29. Phone calls, that is actually interrupting someone’s life to have them talk on the phone, should be reserved for emergencies only.
30. I have 60-plus videos on YouTube and over 30 million views. Of those 60, only three or four are branded videos. I built that audience by telling stories the way I like to tell them.
31. You can always be the hardest working person in the room and I think the hardest working person will always win.
