Casey Neistat Quotes
-
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.
-
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.
-
Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.
-
The only time I get depressed is when I am not being productive, it’s when I am not accomplishing or doing or contributing in any way. Nothing makes me less happy than relaxation and sitting around with nothing to do.
-
I consider myself to be a very good skateboarder, but the difficulty when you're being pulled behind any car, when there's only a 20-ft. line, is that you can't see the potholes.
-
Keep yourself extremely busy. As long as you’re doing something you will find your path.
-
When you are taught the right way to do something you are forced to forge your own path.
-
It’s not how much time you spend doing what you love. It’s how little time you spend doing what you hate.
-
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.
-
I think you should dress nicely for airports. You’re surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.
-
If you type 'Salt Flats' into YouTube, you'll find 100 amazing videos that were shot out there, but you won't find any that were shot in the rain.
-
Look back at your life. It’s always the hardest times that made you who you are.
-
I never want money that I didn’t earn.
-
You can get whatever you want, but you can’t want whatever you want.
-
One of my first questions when I interview prospective employees is, ‘Do you know how big a sheet of plywood is?’ Most people don’t, and say they are different sizes, but it’s 4′ x 8′. Anyway, working with your hands is a very American thing that we kinda lost here, but it’s an important skill to have.
-
A shared life is a great life.
-
Story is king. Everything else is a slave to the story.
-
You can always be the hardest working person in the room, and I think the hardest working person will always win.
-
Sometimes we need to let go of the old to make room for the new.
-
I don't drink much soda; I don't buy Big Gulps, and my body mass index is right where it should be.
-
If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re doing it wrong.
-
The biggest risk is to take no risk at all.
-
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.
-
Work hard, be brave.