50 Incredible Casey Neistat Quotes on Success And Entrepreneurship (2024)

Updated: January 20th, 2022

50 Incredible Casey Neistat Quotes on Success And Entrepreneurship (2024)

Casey Neistat is an American YouTube personality,

He's admired for his hard work, consistency and artistic mind.

He also teaches his audience how to live a fuller life - which is what these 50 quotes by Casey Neistat help teach you.

“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.” – Casey Neistat

“Be nice to people. It’s not cool when people are unfriendly.” – Casey Neistat

“Don’t be a slave to praise.” – Casey Neistat

“I never want money that I didn’t earn.” – Casey Neistat

“The right time is always right now.” – Casey Neistat

“I think you should dress nicely for airports. You’re surrounded by people coming from all walks of life. You should look your best.” – Casey Neistat

“The only way you can have a job and sleep at work whenever you want is when you own the company.” – Casey Neistat

“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?” – Casey Neistat

“Experience does for the soul, what education does for the mind.” – Casey Neistat

“Never get comfortable.” – Casey Neistat

“You can get whatever you want, but you can’t want whatever you want.” – Casey Neistat

“Every time I took these bigger risks, the opportunity for a bigger payout was always there.” – Casey Neistat

“Success is not a destination.” – Casey Neistat

“You either act on ideas or you set them free. You don’t dwell on ideas.” – Casey Neistat

“Without a goal you can’t score.” – Casey Neistat

“Some day I won’t be able to do this. The right time is now.” – Casey Neistat

“Don’t try to fit in—you will be unhappy when you try to be something you are not.” – Casey Neistat

“A shared life is a great life.” – Casey Neistat

“The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.” – Casey Neistat

“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.” – Casey Neistat

“The biggest risk is to take no risk at all.” – Casey Neistat

“It’s the execution that matters, never the idea.” – Casey Neistat

“As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.” – Casey Neistat

“Work hard, be brave.” – Casey Neistat

“It’s not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.” – Casey Neistat

“Sometimes we need to let go of the old to make room for the new.” – Casey Neistat

“Don’t worry about pursuing others, worry about getting others to pursue you.” – Casey Neistat

“Challenge everything in life. Never accept the norm.” – Casey Neistat

“I actively pursue experiences that are unlike any others that I’ve experienced and cultures that I don’t know and unfamiliar places and unfamiliar history and things like that.” – Casey Neistat

“The best way to find something you love is by doing something you hate.” – Casey Neistat

“Retirement is what people do when they wait to die.” – Casey Neistat

“Always ask yourself: “Am I living the life the I want?” Constantly evaluate where you are in life to make sure you are heading towards the direction you want.” – Casey Neistat

“Always the stairs. Never the escalator.” – Casey Neistat

“Persistence and endurance will make you omnipotent.” – Casey Neistat

“Ideas are cheap. Ideas are easy. Ideas are common. Everybody has ideas. Ideas are highly, highly overvalued. Execution is all that matters.” – Casey Neistat

“Do what you can’t.” – Casey Neistat

“Being nice takes work, that’s why I really like people who are nice.” – Casey Neistat

“I have a rule. Ignore praise, embrace criticism. I never seek compliment, its generally a dead-end.” – Casey Neistat

“Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and work.” – Casey Neistat

“Go to bed when you’ve finished work—not earlier.” – Casey Neistat

“Free time is the enemy of progress. Because free time. Sitting around. Is not doing.” – Casey Neistat

“When you get bullied, success is the best revenge. Always remember: the kids who bully you are losers, and will remain losers.” – Casey Neistat

“Look back at your life. It’s always the hardest times that made you who you are.” – Casey Neistat

“Overthinking the process will kill any career in the creative space. You just have to do, not think.” – Casey Neistat

“It’s not how much time you spend doing what you love. It’s how little time you spend doing what you hate.” – Casey Neistat

“If you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re doing it wrong.” – Casey Neistat

“You never ‘make’ it. There is no end goal in life so you should enjoy the journey.” – Casey Neistat

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Pat Walls

I'm Pat Walls and I created Starter Story - a website dedicated to helping people start businesses. We interview entrepreneurs from around the world about how they started and grew their businesses.