Casey Neistat
Casey Neistat
Casey Owen Neistat is an American YouTube personality, filmmaker and co-founder of social media company Beme...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionDirector
Date of Birth25 March 1981
CityNew London, CT
CountryUnited States of America
right-time right-now
The right time is always right now.
goal score
Without a goal, you can’t score.
enemy-of-progress enemy progress
Free time is the enemy of progress
ideas execution matter
It's the execution that matters, never the idea.
risk
The biggest risk is to take no risk at all
guiding-principles risk assuming
As a guiding principle, life shrinks and life expands in direct proportion to your willingness to assume risk.
creative reason-why reason
If the reason why you're doing anything creative is to make a living, then you're doing it wrong
play safe life-is
The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.
doing-you ifs
If you're doing what everyone else is doing, you're doing it wrong.
becoming feature great messages receive send stories
I don't send and receive messages on Snapchat; I never have. Stories is the only feature I use. I think of them becoming a more dynamic social network, and I think it's great.
kids
I get, like, 50 emails a day from kids being like, 'I want to go on this trip around the world. How do I get a sponsor?'
actively history places pursue unfamiliar unlike
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.
branded built four million stories telling videos
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.
concert stands u2 watching
If I'm in the stands at a U2 concert watching Bono, how can I capture this moment without interrupting it and making it fake?