“People get too big to do the little things and then wonder why they don’t have the big results.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2024
“I was ecstatic because in my mind I knew that if I made $4, I could make $40 million.”
Isaac Mashman · CanvasRebel, 2023
“Taking risks doesn’t seem so daunting when you have faith in yourself and trust that no matter what happens, you will figure out a solution.”
Isaac Mashman · Bold Journey, 2023
“Chase the vision regardless of what other people do, say, or think.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2024
“The fact is, we can have it all if we get past our limiting beliefs and our tendencies of making up excuses.”
Isaac Mashman · IdeaMensch, 2023
“I am motivated by the thought of my future self.”
Isaac Mashman · The Total Entrepreneurs, 2021
“The marketplace is not looking for another person to mindlessly subscribe to. The marketplace is looking for the anomaly.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Never take advice from somebody who doesn't have the experience in an area of life that you want to have for yourself.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Aggressive Patience is the understanding that your goals and vision take time to achieve. No matter the frame of time, it mustn’t prevent you from taking action steps that bring you closer to your objectives.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“No intention compensates for a lack of execution.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“People who are doing better than you will never talk down on you. It is only the people who are looking up who wish to bring people down.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Excellence is your obligation.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“It is not a necessity to have talent. It is a necessity to have willpower.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Confidence is only a symptom of action or a lack thereof.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“The genius lies in showing up when you don’t feel like it as your personal brand’s results are apathetic to your times of weakness.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Are you building your personal brand to represent the Mask, or to represent the person who’s staring back at you in the mirror?”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Generational curses are actually blessings in disguise; the mistakes were already made for you, now all you have to do is apply the solutions.”
Isaac Mashman · Goodreads
“Competition only exists in your head, not in the marketplace.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2024
“We as human beings, I believe, are meant to be creatures of continuous growth, that's survival. The more we grow, the better we can survive.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“To act out of desperation is to act out of instinct. To let oneself get to that point, however, is to ignore self-preservation.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2024
“Music allows me to disconnect from my present reality, and communicate to my future wisdom.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2024
“To settle is to die. To not settle implies that death is avoidable.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2024
“I believe there comes a boiling point if you will, where if you try to force any more productivity, you’ll cause more damage than you would produce change.”
Isaac Mashman · Bold Journey, 2023
“You see, we are products of our conscious mind and we are products of our habits. See, what happens is you do something consciously and then after a period of time, that conscious habit becomes a subconscious way of living.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“The very answers in which we seek are staring back at us in every reflection.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2024
“The questions that keep us up at night are the questions which drive us during the day.”
Isaac Mashman · Goodreads
“Successful people have a very peculiar mindset. They have a level of mental and personal control that most do not and their perception of money is also very different.”
Isaac Mashman · Voyage LA, 2021
“Others may call it excessive, but I say it's not enough.”
Isaac Mashman · Goodreads
“To dwell on the lack thereof is a mental trap the majority of visionaries are taught to do.”
Isaac Mashman · Goodreads
“Once you set the intention, you will start seeking solutions.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2023
“It comforts me to know that anything I put my mind to, and pursue, I can achieve.”
Isaac Mashman · Goodreads
“No consultant or therapist will ever know you as well as you know yourself.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“I have found my stubborn nature to be one of the very things to keep me going when any reasonable person gives up.”
Isaac Mashman · OrlandoVoyager, 2022
“That scarcity mindset breeds scarcity results, whether that's financially, whether that's in friendships or relationships, whether that's in human growth.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Curiosity causes you to question everything and ask things like ‘what if’ and ‘why not’.”
Isaac Mashman · OrlandoVoyager, 2022
“Proving others wrong while proving yourself right is one of the most primal feelings.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“To feel obligated to finish all of your food is to be living with a mindset of scarcity. It is the little things from our childhood that have the longest impact.”
Isaac Mashman · Goodreads
“I have found the best form of meditation is in walking.”
Isaac Mashman · IdeaMensch, 2023
“Your ‘why’ should be centered around yourself. If you’re not taken care of, how do you ever expect to take care of others?”
Isaac Mashman · Goodreads
“Minor inconveniences are just that, and nothing more.”
Isaac Mashman · Goodreads
“Knowing your ‘why’ keeps you grounded through burnout or flops.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2025
“To compete with your reflection, is to have already won long term.”
Isaac Mashman · Goodreads
“The 99% are looking for the 1% to follow.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“A mindset of abundance can only be guided and influenced, never forced.”
Isaac Mashman · Goodreads
“If you have the awareness to know that you don’t know something, you, therefore, have the awareness to be able to seek out a solution.”
Isaac Mashman · Prowly, 2022
“You can't spend the same amount of time doing the same exact things you were doing before you set these massive goals.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Humans have different emotional states that are here to serve us, if anything be redirected. Not to be tamed.”
Isaac Mashman · Goodreads
“Not being clear or perfect and still making progress is more beneficial than taking forever to come up with the best hypothetical plan.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Your task is not to be a data scientist who analyzes every data point; it is to be an executor who gets things done.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“A paradigm is formed based off of the opinions of other people and based off of the information around us.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Neither we nor the clients are right 100% of the time. Always use objective analysis to draw the best conclusions.”
Isaac Mashman · ValiantCEO, 2024
“You lock the door before you go to bed, you lock your car doors, you protect your material possessions, but it's like we don't protect our mindset, we don't protect our brains.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Aggressive patience is the understanding that success will take time but you take aggressive action each and every day to make it come true.”
Isaac Mashman · The Total Entrepreneurs, 2021
“Let your actions and personal brand do the speaking.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Having patience is being used as an excuse to procrastinate rather than putting in the time you should be, towards your respective projects.”
Isaac Mashman · The Total Entrepreneurs, 2021
“We try to justify our partying by saying, oh, we work hard. We deserve it. Well, based off of where you're going and your goals that you say that you want to pursue, did you really earn taking an entire weekend off?”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Doubt is normal, but staying complacent should not be a symptom.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“You can be as specific as you want, but micromanaging every opportunity will cause you to lose more than you gain. Be aware, but not overtly scrupulous.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2023
“I think the difficult conversations are with yourself because you're compromising with yourself. You're trying to justify your lack of success by saying, oh, I was preparing for it.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Cockiness evolved into confidence.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“When you look at what’s right in front of you, you’re not looking up at this mountain that you have never climbed before.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2023
“Financial freedom without health means you’re still in prison. A healthy bank account with complacency means you’re poor in attitude, hence your balance won’t last.”
Isaac Mashman · The Total Entrepreneurs, 2021
“Being impartial isn't about beating yourself up, it's about optimization.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Deal with facts instead of theory and strategy instead of convenience.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“I think if anything, society's made it seem like a nine to five is a negative thing, but in reality, a job is a blessing because that's the way that you can put food on your table.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Being fueled by pride will cause you to lie to the one person you should never lie to.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“The only competition that exists is the competition that you create.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“The simple solution to burnout is more execution.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Competition is a blessing, as without it, the market would not evolve.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Why not be yourself and build up a name for yourself and be in competition with you? If you don't focus on labels, then you won't have anybody to compete with because you won't be looking at other people.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Will is a sword in need of frequent sharpening.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“I wasn’t sure how it would work out, but I knew it would, just like when I booked a one-way ticket to Paris.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2023
“My difficulty has been with myself. So if your most difficult thing is you, imagine the possibilities if you overcome yourself.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Self-control and discipline are blessings and it takes time to build up those things.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“You are your best friend or your absolute arch nemesis.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“What some would label as immature, or as outright idiotic, I view as opportunities to increase faith in myself, develop skills, and experience things nobody in my life ever chose to.”
Isaac Mashman · Shoutout LA, 2021
“Putting yourself in situations where it’s all or nothing causes an instinctual response of survival to arise.”
Isaac Mashman · Shoutout LA, 2021
“Learning to thrive in risk and in uncomfortable circumstances allows you to control your reactions in the future. When a problem arises and others stress, you come up with solutions. It boils down to trust in self, and self-control.”
Isaac Mashman · Shoutout LA, 2021
“We might not be at that level physically, but mentally we are already there.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“The law works when you work.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Our present actions lead to our future life. The future is already set into stone if you want it to be. Your present self is just catching up to it.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“What we’re actually doing is trying to convince ourselves that we are worthy of the end result.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2023
“The first step is to be aware that you are overwhelmed. Once you have this awareness you can process what is causing it.”
Isaac Mashman · Bold Journey, 2023
“Don't go into something, just trying to try it.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Thinking that you are too big to fail or fall is the exact thinking that leads to your detriment.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“An opinion is the cheapest commodity ever, but at the same time, an opinion can be the most expensive commodity if it is the wrong opinion.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“I think that we're all just playing this way too small.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“On my typical day, I wake up and always start out with coffee. I currently have 6 different ways of brewing a cup and am looking to invest in some more.”
Isaac Mashman · IdeaMensch, 2023
“I have found that forcing myself to be in a ‘cubicle’ or at my desk I am less productive.”
Isaac Mashman · IdeaMensch, 2023
“Gyms are great for equipment and such, but nothing beats a walk with a weighted vest and a good podcast.”
Isaac Mashman · IdeaMensch, 2023
“It’s not about boredom or chasing likes. It’s about ambition.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2025
“Vanity alone can veer into narcissism, but paired with money or mission, it’s a healthy motivator.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2025
“I didn’t wait until perfection, but I did wait until I could devote time to it and it made more sense.”
Isaac Mashman · IdeaMensch, 2023
“While ego can potentially be your greatest downfall, it can also be your greatest asset.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Depending on how stressed I am, my walk may be a few minutes or a few hours but I have never come back from one and felt worse.”
Isaac Mashman · IdeaMensch, 2023
“Inspiration is the feeling; motivation drives action.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2025
“I occasionally enjoy a celebratory cigar when I close a client, get a feature, or have had an extraordinarily productive day.”
Isaac Mashman · IdeaMensch, 2023
“The only people who you really support and that you become fans of are people who are confident in who they are and are certain with where they're going in life.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“I encourage you to build something unforgettable, go out and make it happen, or don’t. The decision is yours.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2025
“I remember the look on my guidance counselor’s face when I told him I wasn’t looking to pursue higher education. Truth is, I was, I just wasn’t going to receive it sitting in a classroom setting.”
Isaac Mashman · OrlandoVoyager, 2022
“If you have that voice in the back of your head, chances are it's there for a reason.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“My perspective on challenges and hardships is if they didn’t exist what would be the fun in pursuing something?”
Isaac Mashman · OrlandoVoyager, 2022
“You got this, but the first step is figuring out who you want to be, and then the second step is believing that you can become that person.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Still, the moment I received my first copy in the mail, I remember telling myself that it could be so much better.”
Isaac Mashman · Executive Thoughts, 2025
“During difficult times such as the last 2 years, a lot of people put their lives on hold, whereas it was a perfect opportunity to pick up a book, learn a new skill, and come out stronger.”
Isaac Mashman · OrlandoVoyager, 2022
“When it comes to my vision and all of the other things I’m working towards, I can’t afford to let a few obstacles cause me to deter from my path.”
Isaac Mashman · OrlandoVoyager, 2022
“Don't let somebody who has a million followers make you feel small.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Introversion doesn’t have a place when it comes to building your personal brand.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Go into this with a level of humility, but also with a level of pride. Go into this with a level of confidence. Go into this with a level of understanding of why you're doing this and what you're doing this for.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“Bold but earnest confidence helps obtain all of the outcomes you desire.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“We should never change our character of being to try and adapt to another’s expectations.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“You can't expect your significant other to motivate you to get out of bed.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“You stop doing one thing, you make excuses, it leads to two things, four things, eight things, and 30 things.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“You’re playing a game that doesn’t have a finish line and a scarcity mindset keeps you in place.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“One of my mentors once said that business should never be a bore. If you turn business into a game of ‘Me vs. Me’ being an entrepreneur can be a lot of fun.”
Isaac Mashman · The Total Entrepreneurs, 2021
“You cannot give other people leverage or control over you.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“If I stopped now and gave in, I’d be settling and disrespecting the people who believed in me when I didn’t even believe in myself.”
Isaac Mashman · The Total Entrepreneurs, 2021
“Be humble enough to recognize that you are not perfect, but you are striving to become perfect. You are striving to ultimately live up to your potential.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“If a situation arises that appears bad, view it as a learning experience rather than an unfortunate happening.”
Isaac Mashman · The Total Entrepreneurs, 2021
“You may find yourself on a big yacht, but you should never be too big to take out the small boat with some friends.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“You have to be able and be willing to be your number one advocate because if you cannot advocate for yourself, then how do you anticipate people are going to advocate for you?”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“Even if you're not certain as to what you are wanting to do or what you are pursuing still, make the decision to be persistent, to be annoying about your success and just make it happen.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“When you make decisions, you don't second guess yourself. If you do second guess yourself, you never follow through with that second guess.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“I have been consistently working to reprogram my subconscious mind and am continuing to do so today.”
Isaac Mashman · Voyage LA, 2021
“How you dress externally is a direct reflection on how much respect you have for yourself internally.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“Aggressive patience is what you need to develop. It's not saying patience that this is going to take forever and I'm going to lay off the gas, but aggressive patience is understanding it's going to take a while so that is why you're applying more pressure to it.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“You listen to the instincts, but you do not listen to the emotions.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“The reason you're not being productive is not because there's no work to do or there's nothing to get done. It's normally because you just don't want to do it.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“There must be intention behind building your personal brand. No one does anything without a reason.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Your driving intentions or forces may change and that is okay. When significant shifts do occur, reevaluate where you are and identify how you will need to adapt your strategy.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“I would say vanity is ingrained in our nature.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“For those motivated by vanity, attention itself is the end goal.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Everybody's trying to one up you. They're trying to feel like they're better than you. It's really just coming from a place of ego and not actual confidence.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“The most confident person is the person who doesn't have to go out of their way to prove something.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“You don't have to express your confidence. People are able to sense it naturally.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“We use the language of we're going to. We use the language of it would be nice to. All of those different things are words of weakness.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“Everybody else wants you to conform to their level of comfort because they feel threatened by how big you are thinking.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“Possessing an awareness of who you are outside your career is a piece of the puzzle that driven individuals often fail to figure out, although it is the one thing that takes no money or external resources to obtain.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“A lot of people set New Year's resolutions and I think New Year's resolutions set you up for failure.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“Open up Pandora’s Box and put your entire being onto paper. It might not be fun, but understanding all sides to you, good and bad, will serve you well in more ways than one.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“You have the ability, the opportunity, the chance, the awareness and the consciousness to be able to start fresh any day of the year.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“You make up for that lack of faith by having your faith in what you are pursuing and in your own vision.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“You're going to start and then scale, but most people fail to do that because they don't think they're worth enough.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“Don't be cocky. Don't be a jerk. But don't think that just because somebody calls you stubborn, that's innately a bad thing.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“The concept of the 1% extends much farther than finances. It extends to an overall way of being.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Anyone who believes they can pursue the 1% in one area of life, without pursuing the 1% in another is a fool.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“By deliberately choosing to be in the category of the 1% you are making it easier for people to latch on and live through you by proxy.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“There is no shortage of consumerism, but we are driven by advancement.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Your obsession with growth must get to a point where the times that you are not growing make you feel off; that those moments are not how it should be.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Be selective of the mentors or public figures you look to for advice as you will never have all of the energy in the world to follow every person you might want to.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Patience alone becomes an excuse for your lack of execution whereas aggressiveness alone leads to a blatant disregard for relationships, details that matter, and potential impacts to one’s reputation.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“There are many beliefs on how success is achieved but what I know as fact, is those who implement their ideas will see things come to fruition far faster than those that overthink without implementing.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Overthinking leads to a lack of effort altogether; rumination is something I struggled with at length, and it makes the smallest tasks appear to be insurmountable.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“There are hundreds of strategies you can use for your personal brand, thousands of potential outcomes, and eventually millions of moving parts. You will never master or implement all of them.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“When I first started in business, I operated out of a youthful arrogance. There was cockiness in my character and voice as I was trying to convince other people and frankly, I was trying to convince myself.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“I am personally motivated by a sort of dark energy. I understand this might not appeal to some, but if you can take that chip on your shoulder and carry that weight, you can prove anybody who doubted you wrong.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“I have never been somebody who wakes up in a high-vibration state of mind. It takes me time to get out of bed and a few cups of coffee before I feel ready to take on the world.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Maintaining an attitude of optimism as a leader is of the utmost importance because the public is not looking for Debbie Downers to support.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“If you are a public pessimist, you might as well be like everybody else. If you speak without self-assurance, you lack credence.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“The interesting thing about imposter syndrome is I believe that that happens when we're experiencing the most momentum in our lives.”
Isaac Mashman · The Start Down, 2021
“There are no downsides to excellence. Setting a standard for yourself will only lead to better outcomes, and in fairness it is not proper to expect others to follow you on your journey if your execution is subpar.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Send that message, respond to the comment, clean up after yourself in the gym, pick up the piece of trash in the road, and return the shopping cart.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Although your motivating factor for building your personal brand might be vanity, your mindset should not be vain.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Impartiality is the ability to take a step back and evaluate your performance, results, and lack thereof.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“The longer you wait to make a change the more likely what you want to change becomes a bad habit and a misguided system of thought.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“What are you doing that you shouldn’t be doing, and what could you be doing that you’re not? What are you doing a little that you need to do more?”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Impartiality is a representation of maturity.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“You can become a top expert in time, but if you’re just starting, you have to balance strategic thinking with your ego drive.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Burnout is marked by a period of inaction. It is a time where questions creep in and focus is lost; it is manifested as doubt grows.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“A wildfire cannot grow without oxygen so suffocate those doubts before they spread.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Are you more likely to doubt yourself when things are going great or are you more likely to doubt yourself when things aren't going your way?”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“I think that business owners are afraid of being fraudulent. I think that's a good fear. I think that's a really healthy fear. I think when you're building your personal brand, don't feel like you're a fraud for putting yourself out there.”
Isaac Mashman · Headsmack: Conversations with Misfits, 2024
“Despite all of the clichés and what feel-good ‘motivators’ tell you, competition is very real.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“I have gamified my process and I am constantly looking for ways that I can stand above the rest.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“If you are not a competitive person, you are losing out on a tremendous amount of potential.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“You versus You. Those periods of doubts and imposter syndrome can fuel your fire by introducing an enemy. Your current version is fighting with the person you are working to become.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“The world is not some utopia, so leave the idea that competition does not exist in the past.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Willpower is the force you call upon that allows you to push through and accomplish tasks even if you do not physically feel like it.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Compile your wins. Every time that you make a decision that goes against the weak voice inside of your head, latch on to that feeling and tell yourself that you did something good.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“In large part, titles are vanity metrics, which feel good to say and have next to your name, but it is more so about what they can do for you versus how they make you feel.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“It doesn't matter if you're in front of one person or 20 people. You film it like you're speaking in front of a room of 10,000.”
Isaac Mashman · Wake The Bleep Up Show, 2025
“Without a sense of purpose, nihilism and internal chaos can manifest.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“There is an enemy which creates the drive for a solution.”
Isaac Mashman · The Joseph Graham Show, 2024
“Your work ethic was instilled by your environment.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“We already have freedom. The thing that we want is options.”
Isaac Mashman · Next In Time, 2022
“Are you really an introvert or are you just telling yourself that you are?”
Isaac Mashman · Next In Time, 2022
“Your business mentors are usually not so all-consumed that they don’t have any hobbies.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Most people are afraid of putting the focus on themselves because they were raised to say don't seek attention or don't talk to strangers or don't talk about yourself when that's the one thing you should be doing.”
Isaac Mashman · BrandAPeel: Brand Storytelling in the Digital Age, 2022
“Nothing wrong with going out and being able to get your hands dirty and being willing to, but the moment that you realize you don't have to is the moment that you now get control.”
Isaac Mashman · The Blue Collar Enlightenment Show, 2022
“My real reason is I'm trying to live up to my potential, and everything else is going to fall into place afterwards.”
Isaac Mashman · The Justin Aguirre Podcast, 2021
“You don't have to try to learn everything around you, because then you're just going to be going in a million different directions, and those million different directions are not going to get you results.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“I will continue chasing the vision, because my vision will always be growing.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“You can study 25 different mentors and look at all these different strategies and paths, but then that creates a lot of confusion and lack of clarity, because you don't know which ones you should take.”
Isaac Mashman · Business Growth Trailblazers, 2024
“For every two actions you take that will help your business or career, take one action for yourself and personal interests.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“If you choose to stay in your shell, how do you ever expect to break out of it and to get more results?”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“I would much rather be friends with people who have a similar mindset than with people who have absolutely no concern for business or self-improvement.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“I do not believe that introvertiveness is something that a person is born with. I don't think that it is nature. I think that it is nurtured.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“But you as a creator, a content creator, that's a lifetime commitment, especially if you're growing your personal brand using social media.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“You see, the way that you think is largely determined by the external influences around you, and you have to start monitoring those external influences.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“You see, what you need to start doing, because you cannot rely on external validation, is giving yourself permission to take that leap of faith. Giving yourself permission to have that independent thought away from everybody else.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“If you’re going out to dinner and want to make a post of your meal, ask yourself why.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“With your personal brand, you're building your personal brand regardless. So why not take control of it and actually consciously get in front of it?”
Isaac Mashman · Next In Time, 2024
“Money is ultimately a reflection of you. So if you're naturally a bad person, money's going to exacerbate that, compared to if you're a good person, money gives you more ability to do good with it.”
Isaac Mashman · Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong, 2024
“A lot of times we let our clients or our prospects take leverage over us by saying no, or choosing to go with somebody else, or making demands when they're not necessarily in a position to make demands.”
Isaac Mashman · Outlier's Edge Podcast with Niiamah Ashong, 2024
“People think that they have to create a new personal brand every single time they pivot. That's not the case.”
Isaac Mashman · The Maverrik Podcast, 2022
“There's a level of ego that's healthy, and this ego is backed by confidence and it's backed by action. It's backed by the knowledge that you have actually done something that's worth having a slight ego for.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“Because the more committed you are to your process and your growth, the more everyone outside of you and surrounding you is going to benefit from how much you were doing for you.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2021
“Whenever you catch yourself going into autopilot, that's a good indicator that you need to change something.”
Isaac Mashman · Tools of the Podcast Trade, 2024
“I've recognized that sometimes we're going to have to be selfish first. If you're trying to help every other person in your life, but you're not helping yourself first, how do you expect to ever help another person?”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“You can't let a bully internet culture make you into something that you're not or make you feel a certain type of way.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“I have more potential because of personal development and because of learning from other people who have already made the mistakes.”
Isaac Mashman · Podcasting 101 with RSS.com, 2022
“So just like you would have an AI video editor, the AI video editor isn't creating the content and the video for you. It's editing the video that you have created.”
Isaac Mashman · Basic Business AI, 2024
“I like rebranding things and bringing new awareness to the subjects, because the premise with Executive Status is, like, we're all executives in our own life.”
Isaac Mashman · The Deep End with Eric Triplett, 2026
“You have three big motivators in life, money, mission and vanity.”
Isaac Mashman · The Deep End with Eric Triplett, 2026
“There are just certain things that you have to let other people do, feel, and think. You have to control how you feel, do, and think.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“You have to have that self-awareness to even understand when you are taking a situation and blowing it up out of proportion to what it really is.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2020
“You cannot expect things to happen. You cannot be on the couch watching TV and think that your business is going to grow.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“I'm not trying to motivate you. I'm very simply saying that if you want results to come to you, you first have to be going to them.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“If you want to have strong relationships and strong friendships, sometimes you're going to have to send out the first text message.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“It's not like you lost control. You gave away your control, which means that if you gave it away, you can take it back.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“2017 was the moment that I got started, and within four or five years, I've been able to combine and gain literally decades' worth of experience through personal development, through personal growth.”
Isaac Mashman · Chase the Vision, 2022
“I view artificial intelligence as the spotter for mankind to where we're still the backbone, but artificial intelligence is the thing that's pushing us forward at a rate that we couldn't have reached alone.”
Isaac Mashman · Sapient, 2024
“I actually believe the more time you're spending thinking about your legacy, the less time you have for everything else you could be doing that's actually contributing to it.”
Isaac Mashman · The Deep End with Eric Triplett, 2024
“I'd rather cast the net and maybe pick through it than be the person who only casts the line and hopes they get something, even if the fish is bigger, for example.”
Isaac Mashman · The Joseph Graham Show, 2024
“Goliath’s demise was caused by the conceited belief he was too big to fall.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“But it truly boils down to this: if you have momentum, you need to keep that momentum, because it's much easier to keep it than it is to restart it and reestablish it.”
Isaac Mashman · Lets Have This Conversation, 2024
“Follow the person who gives the pieces and the tactics that you can actually use, that are tangible. We don't need more cliches. We need more strategy.”
Isaac Mashman · Lets Have This Conversation, 2024
“Building a business is a lot like a fish pond, because if you don't feed them, the fish die. If you don't feed your business, the business dies, the business will dry up.”
Isaac Mashman · Lets Have This Conversation, 2024
“I would have to say a lot of the improvements and a lot of the development I've been able to accomplish have been on a personal level, a level that most people aren't able to see, because people really underestimate what personal development can do for a person just because the physical results haven't manifested themselves yet.”
Isaac Mashman · Zane Speaks Out, 2019
“I've been talking about small wins a lot because I've really come to understand the power of them. Willpower is built over time.”
Isaac Mashman · Zane Speaks Out, 2019
“I don't care about criticism. I'll take your opinion, I'll look at it, and I'll be like, okay, I can actually improve, if the opinion is genuine.”
Isaac Mashman · Zane Speaks Out, 2019
“I honestly feel that I have the advantage because I don't know everything, because there's so much that I can learn and experience and do at the same exact time.”
Isaac Mashman · United Podcast Experience, 2019
“I know for sure that I should always be growing, no matter how old I get or how wise I get; there's always something more to learn, to grow into, to evolve into.”
Isaac Mashman · United Podcast Experience, 2019
“I think that in my mind, if you're trying to be authentic, you're being inauthentic, because you're manipulating the output.”
Isaac Mashman · Visibility Era, 2024
“I believe where a lot of people go wrong is they don't spend enough time on one particular thing.”
Isaac Mashman · Visibility Era, 2024
“What some people would refer to as sustainable, high achievers would refer to as stagnant.”
Isaac Mashman · The Scoop With Erica Krupin, 2026
“You can't put other people in your shoes. It's like, you can put yourself in another person's shoes, but you can't put the other person in your shoes.”
Isaac Mashman · The Scoop With Erica Krupin, 2026
“I think analyzing how our own judgment is being cast on other people is also an effective tool to use to audit how other people are perceiving us.”
Isaac Mashman · The Scoop With Erica Krupin, 2026
“I'm not speaking with confidence to convince you. I'm speaking with confidence to convince myself.”
Isaac Mashman · The Scoop With Erica Krupin, 2026
“You should absolutely continue to position yourself as a public figure, but even Napoleon Bonaparte foolishly marched into Russia.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Why does audience fatigue happen? Simply put, ego.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“The idea of being humble should not be something that imprisons a person or prevents them from pursuing their goals out of the fear that they will be prideful or ‘better than thou.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“One of my flaws is my incapability to deeply appreciate wins. As my personal brand has grown throughout the last decade I have had to manually force myself to stop and take note of what it is I have accomplished.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Gamify what you are doing and make it enjoyable. View strengthening your personal brand as a game where the end goal is hitting unprecedented levels.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Do not refrain from taking action over the fear of failure, for if you do, how can you anticipate ever developing the skill?”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“The Power of 3 doesn’t exist just to compound. It’s intended to develop your mentality and lay the foundation needed to scale.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“I am in the school of thought that there should be a balance between selfish intent and selfless giving.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“There is no such thing as pure selflessness unless we're referring to holy men themselves.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Every idea that you have does not have to be executed straight away. Recognize the difference between pushing something off because you don't think that you are good enough or doing so because it makes strategic sense.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Early on, this was one of my biggest mistakes as I wanted to chase so many new shiny objects and didn’t have the discipline to consistently execute.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“An Intrapersonal Relationship refers to the relationship with oneself.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Nobody is going to be there to tell you to attend an event, create content, have conversations, or pitch that reporter.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Having a healthy internal relationship aids in the development of healthy external relationships too, in so much that you do not come across as codependent, desperate, or too reliant on outcomes by the other party.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“I have gotten comfortable being in situations that others would normally run from.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“On that same business trip, I was one of the only distributors who came dressed in a full suit. Where others were more interested in the Vice President’s Rolex I was more interested in the knowledge he was teaching.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Skepticism serves an instinctual purpose. It’s in our nature to question things that we aren’t familiar with or understand.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“A substantial issue with people who are working to build their personal brand and are particularly driven by money and vanity, is that they lose sight of the bigger picture. They think that they are bigger than they actually are.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“If you’re just starting out, you shouldn’t be asking a brand for $100,000 to make a sponsored post or sell a product.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“We are subconsciously influenced from the time we were children and as memories develop so do our biases.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Forcefully promoting your accomplishments gives off the appearance that you didn’t think that you deserved them and that you’re not good enough.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“You are not trapped in your current pursuits and do not be fearful of how people might respond.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Nothing that you could do and no amount of time spent dwelling on these passed over opportunities will ever change the fact that you missed them.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Our mentality does not like losing, which is wonderful, but if you let your lack of previous action lead you down a path of procrastination, you will just lose out on more present-day opportunities.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“The Mask of Perfection only causes you to hate the person staring back at you in the mirror that much more.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
“Civilization has brought about new technological advancements but the nature of man has largely remained the same. We seek to be appreciated and ask others for validation.”
Isaac Mashman · The Manifesto, Second Edition
