The riskiest thing in the whole world to do is what everybody else wants you to do

"Let there be no confusion: VeeFriends will be one of the most monumental NFT projects of all-time. Not because of my bravado on this podcast, but because, for the last 24 years, I worked diligently, respectfully, properly, with good innovation, tremendous intent; I built great teams that are families; we work hard; we always do the right thing; I have very good consumer intuition, like you do; I do the right things; I execute, execute, execute.

The first Internet collected the information. The second Internet created the framework for communication, right? This third thing, this web 3 NFT thing, it's going to capture the consumerization of assets, and the stakes are fucking high.

When people say to me, 'What does success look?" I always say the same thing pretty consistently - being able to wake up and do whatever the fuck I want whenever I want

I think voice is the next frontier ... I believe that Alexa and the Google home are the next iPhones, and that the next complete explosion in innovation and excitement is going to be what people build on top of the voice device when the voice device is at scale in a half decade.

What I'm saying to a lot of entrepreneurs is, 'Hey, here's some good news: If you started a business within the last 10 years, you've lived under what I think is a fake environment ... This is going to be great opportunity for you to build some scars.'

The number one regret of the dead and dying, people who are on their deathbed: that they lived the life that other people wanted for them, not their own

The great blessing of my life is that I don't judge myself

Everyone's tearing themselves down. What the fuck are you doing that for? Everybody else is doing it for you. Stop beating yourself up.

Art is not creativity. Creativity is building businesses, writing code, building a family, and basically everything else we do. We as humans are creating machines.

The first year of people discovering [NFTs], their scamiest friend made $83,000 selling a penguin with a penis in its eye. Think about that. Of course normal people don't get it. They're right. It's the same reason people didn't get the Internet in '99.

You'll always be disappointed if you think some big force is going to save you... so just solve it for yourself

I believe that there's not a single sporting event or concert in 10 years that the ticket is not an NFT because there's no incentive for that organization and that artist or people to launch it as anything but an NFT because a QR code or piece of paper means nothing. But the NFT, if Luka Doncic drops 100 points in that game, that becomes a forever collectible.

Which is my big belief of where NFTs are going to go, right? Like it's a smart contract—you could do anything. Right now, we're so fixated on the collectability and the art aspect, which is amazing ... But there's so much more that can be done.

There's a lot of people right now really struggling with their transition because they have a negative mother or father and it's a force in their life that is really fucking them up. I don't think you need to cut out dad, but maybe you don't have to answer every one of his calls when you know the call is going to be negative.

I put out an obnoxious amount of content in the height of the height of the height ... I have unlimited receipts of saying 99% of the projects that were booming in the boom were going to 0.

Creativity is a muscle... The more you use, the more you have.

How about this? You know how everyone's like 'social media's full of shit, everyone takes photos and fakes it'? You know what's going to be a much better social identity: What tokens do you have in your wallet publicly?

I want to understand how to get as many people into NFTs as possible in the world, and Ethereum is remarkable, and I'm a fan, but it needs to evolve.

Chamath Palihapitiya advises businesses to keep 36 months of runway in the bank.

We are living through the beginning of the platform that arguably is one of the five biggest inventions and impacts on humans... ever

The only way you can actually stand out is by being unapologetically, no questions asked, YOU

So, what do I think overall? I think people are grossly underestimating NFTs.

You can't arrive on your own self-esteem from other people's success

I have never really grew up nor thought of being known. I wanted to be a businessman. I still want to be a businessman. I am a businessman. I, day-to-day, run a company. I don't love being Gary Vee the way people think. I love people the way people think. Like, I love people.

It's hard enough to know ourselves let alone anyone else