Casey Neistat is an American YouTube personality, filmmaker, vlogger, and co-founder of now-defunct multimedia company Beme. May his quotes inspire you to live life on your own terms.
1. “Without a goal, you can’t score.” Casey Neistat
2. “Free time is the enemy of progress.” Casey Neistat
3. “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.” Casey Neistat
4. “Being nice takes work. That’s why I really like people who are nice.” Casey Neistat
5. “Look back at your life. It’s always the hardest times that made you who you are.” Casey Neistat
6. “Do more.” Casey Neistat
7. “More often than not I find myself in situations where I have no idea what I’m doing and I feel no shame in revealing that.” Casey Neistat
8. “Always the stairs, never the escalator.” Casey Neistat
9. “Work harder.” Casey Neistat
10. “The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.” Casey Neistat
11. “Someday I won’t be able to do this. The right time is now.” Casey Neistat
12. “You either act on ideas or you set them free. You don’t dwell on ideas.” Casey Neistat
13. “Ideas are easy. Execution is all that matters.” Casey Neistat
14. “Story is king. Everything else is a slave to the story.” Casey Neistat
15. “Work hard and be brave.” Casey Neistat
16. “Overthinking the process will kill any career in the creative space. You just have to do, not think.” Casey Neistat
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.” Casey Neistat
18. “The biggest risk is to take no risk at all.” Casey Neistat
19. “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.” Casey Neistat
20. “Live as if it were impossible to fail.” Casey Neistat
21. “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.” Casey Neistat
22. “A shared life is a great life.” Casey Neistat
23. “Truth is so much more interesting than the fiction we’re used to.” Casey Neistat
24. “Experience does for the soul what education does for the mind.” Casey Neistat
25. “You can always be the hardest working person in the room and I think the hardest working person will always win.” Casey Neistat
26. “Some distance can really make you appreciate what you have.” Casey Neistat
27. “Phone calls, that is actually interrupting someone’s life to have them talk on the phone, should be reserved for emergencies only.” Casey Neistat
28. “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.” Casey Neistat
29. “Do what you can’t.” Casey Neistat
30. “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.” Casey Neistat
31. “I never want money that I didn’t earn.” Casey Neistat
32. “When you are taught the right way to do something you are forced to forge your own path.” Casey Neistat
33. “Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.” Casey Neistat
34. “Keep yourself extremely busy. As long as you’re doing something you will find your path.” Casey Neistat
35. “If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re doing it wrong.” Casey Neistat
