Top 87 Quotes & Sayings by Nick Woodman - Page 2

I feel like I went through the Great Depression. All these companies are being successful around you, you're on that track, and then the market collapses, and you're out of a job. You're trying to save your investors' investment, and it doesn't work, and you sell the company for nothing. It was brutal.

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.

I decided that I want to live in a big world. And since then, any time I'm confronted with a challenging situation, I go for it.

No surfer wants to be the photographer, especially when the waves are good.

I grew up with stories of people who start their own businesses and do really well. So I thought, 'OK, that's what you do.' I can thank my dad for that.

If I walk up to a can of Red Bull, I'm thinking about Formula One; I'm thinking about incredible athletic performances. And it helps me choose that can over something else to either side of it.

YouTube didn't really start to hit its stride until 2006.

I got an email from the Crown Prince of Norway asking me to talk at a summit for young Norwegian entrepreneurs. I ran to my wife and was like, 'Hey! I got an email from the Prince of Norway!'

In the early years, I would say GoPro's products were not that impressive.

I still drink a couple of Red Bulls every day.

My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business.

I come from surfing, and surfing is the worst cool-guy industry of all. I decided long ago to try and kill the cool guy.

You have to ask yourself: how much does any one person or one family need? And when you start thinking about the universe as an organism, it's important that we, as components of that organism, take care of each other and ourselves.

Your passions are a bit like your fingerprints: Everybody has them; everybody's are different. One's passions may just be a guidebook to one's life.

You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.

Somebody captures an incredible video, shares it online, and inspires millions of other people to go and do the same with their GoPros, and then it happens again and again - and what you've got is this incredible snowball of stoked customers capturing and creating rad content with their GoPros.

What makes 4K so interesting is it captures lifelike cinema-quality video.

At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself.

I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.

Losing other people's money was terrible.

I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on.

I learned that most people buy based on emotion, not on a rational breakdown of the product or service.

I enrolled in a race car driving school, where you go for three days, and they wanted to rent me a video camera and charge me $100 for every half-hour.

Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element.

One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's.

I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I’m passionate about, that’s when it came to me.