Casey Neistat is one of the top YouTube vloggers. This filmmaker turned full-time daily vlogger and business man, has been the brains behind many different projects, including a cameo in the movie Nerve. He lives a life of endless positivity, along with a daily 13-mile run. Here are a few of his many inspirational quotes from his talks about business, life, and being an entrepreneur.
1. "Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters."
2. "If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong."
3. "The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe."
4. "If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong."
5. "Free time is the enemy of progress."
6. "The biggest risk is to take no risk at all."
7. "Just trying to live our lives and figuring out how to turn that into art. It's tough to say that the art was premeditated. Instead, you just focused on living. 'How do I want to live? What do I want to do?' Then you figured out how to make that into art."
8. "If Facebook is Lucky Charms, Instagram is just the marshmallows."
9. "I saw 'Avatar' in the theater eight times and I got booed for it. I'm totally serious. First of all, I love that movie. I totally love that movie, but nothing intrigues me more than the fact that it made like $2.7 billion and so how many people had to see it for it to make that much money."
10. “Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.”
11. “Without a goal you can’t score.”
12. “The only way you can have a job and sleep at work whenever you want is when you own the company.”
13. “Look back at your life. It’s always the hardest times that made you who you are.”
14. “I never want money that I didn’t earn.”
15. "Always the stairs. Never the escalator."
16. "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."
17. "As a director, I have the greatest job in the world, but if I don't push the boundaries, then what's the point of having it?"
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