Words matter. These are the best Nick Woodman Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro.
It’s very difficult to get any footage of yourself doing what you love unless you have a friend who’s a photographer or videographer and wants to document you. That was really the idea and the goal from the beginning: to help people get a good photo, and then it was to help people get a good video.
When I was 22, I realised I wanted to be an inventor.
GoPro lets people take other people along for the ride with them.
I don’t want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened.
You don’t have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.
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.
The worst way to fire somebody is to let it drag out. It’s not good for that person because they’re not succeeding in their role. And it’s not good for the organization because it’s just not working.
What makes 4K so interesting is it captures lifelike cinema-quality video.
I want to want to go to work in the morning.
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.
Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning.
No surfer wants to be the photographer, especially when the waves are good.
Automobiles are dangerous as all get-out.
I’ll let myself obsess over things.
If I’m a content creator, and I get recognition for my work, that’s going to motivate me to spend even more time on my next production and make it even better.
As long as you can bootstrap, not at the sacrifice of competitive advantage, bootstrapping is a really powerful thing because it allows you to be totally devoted to your vision.
GoPro is ideal for pro-active capture, meaning, ‘Hey, we’re going to do something fun, and we’re going to capture a video of it.’
Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.
I still drink a couple of Red Bulls every day.
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 think our slow, humble beginnings in surf shops, ski shops, bike shops, and motorcycle shops have been extremely important for our success. GoPro is all about celebrating an active lifestyle and sharing that with other people. It’s authentic. It’s not a brand that we went out and bought a bunch of ads for to create.
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.
I feel like I’ve done a pretty good job of scaling because I got some great mentors along the way that helped me realize I just have to build a phenomenal team around me that makes my job a lot easier.
It sounds cheesy, but if you are having fun, people will love your company, you will be more successful, and more ideas will come your way.
People are watching GoPro content not to decide whether they should buy it or not – they’re watching it for the entertainment.
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.
Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element.
I feel like in a world where we all try to figure out our place and our purpose here, your passions are one of your most obvious guides.
When I have a difficult decision to make, I imagine myself as a 90-year-old guy looking back on his life. I imagine what I’ll think about myself at that point in time, and it always makes it really easy to go for it. You’re only going to regret that you wimped out.
I originally started GoPro with the sole purpose of helping surfers capture photos of themselves and their friends while they were surfing. I thought it was crazy that very few surfers had any photos or videos of themselves.
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.
In France, a hip replacement was captured using two GoPros in a stereoscopic 3D arrangement. Students can watch the surgery using a virtual reality headset.
I’m half Puerto Rican.
On the road and traveling – that’s when people are at their most creative.
I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there.
The magic of GoPro is that we are enabling the world to communicate in this new way, to express themselves in a new way, and it’s snowballing.
Smartphones are always in your pocket. They’re about reactive capture.
A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something.
If we can become the de facto standard for image capture of unique perspectives around the world, we have a lot of growth ahead of us.
Viral word-of-mouth marketing for GoPro is massive. Video is really the conduit.
I’m just extremely excited to explore the planet that we’re living on.
Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive.
I didn’t want to take anybody else’s money. I wanted to do something small that could be profitable from the beginning, and grow that way – and never need someone to write me a check to keep the business going.
My first business was a retro-gaming site where you’d go and play all these cool old-school games. It was a good idea but ahead of its time.
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.
The smartphone killed the traditional camera industry because it subsumed all the functions of a traditional camera.
I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.
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!’
A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket.
I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in.
I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys.
I think that devices like Glass are going to do a terrific job of capturing your first-person perspective. And that’s what people first think of when they think of GoPro.
To get GoPro started, I moved back in with my parents and went to work seven days a week, 20 hours a day. I wrote off my personal life to make headway on it.
Losing other people’s money was terrible.
