Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket. "
Nick Woodman
Computer
Mobile
Pocket
Related Quotes:
" People don't go buy GoPro for the thing; they buy it for what the thing does. "
Nick Woodman
Thing
People
Buy
" The smartphone killed the traditional camera industry because it subsumed all the functions of a traditional camera. "
Nick Woodman
Traditional
Because
Camera
" 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. "
Nick Woodman
Place
Purpose
Try
" 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. "
Nick Woodman
Car
You
School
" Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises. "
Nick Woodman
Fabulous
Through
Movies
" GoPro lets people take other people along for the ride with them. "
Nick Woodman
Along
Other
People
" I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys. "
Nick Woodman
Head
Three
Wore
" People are watching GoPro content not to decide whether they should buy it or not - they're watching it for the entertainment. "
Nick Woodman
People
Entertainment
Content
" You know what the best thing about morning ski trips are? McDonald's! "
Nick Woodman
Ski
You
McDonald
" 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.' "
Nick Woodman
Fun
Capture
Meaning
" No surfer wants to be the photographer, especially when the waves are good. "
Nick Woodman
Good
Wants
Waves
" People use GoPros to capture the experiences they are passionate about. "
Nick Woodman
Experiences
People
Passionate
" 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. "
Nick Woodman
Beginning
Small
Money
" When I was 22, I realised I wanted to be an inventor. "
Nick Woodman
Wanted
Realised
Inventor
" 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. "
Nick Woodman
Life
Different
Just
" 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. "
Nick Woodman
People
Success
Think
" I don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened. "
Nick Woodman
Want
Wake Up
Off
" One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's. "
Nick Woodman
Friend
Early
Who
" 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. "
Nick Woodman
Sacrifice
You
Long
" Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture. "
Nick Woodman
Your
Always
Capture
" I still drink a couple of Red Bulls every day. "
Nick Woodman
Every Day
Red
Still
" YouTube didn't really start to hit its stride until 2006. "
Nick Woodman
Start
Until
YouTube
" Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning. "
Nick Woodman
Burn
How
Keep
" At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself. "
Nick Woodman
Build
You
More
" 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. "
Nick Woodman
Own
I Can
You
" Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive. "
Nick Woodman
Everyone
Over
Business
" 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. "
Nick Woodman
People
Glass
Perspective
" 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. "
Nick Woodman
Surgery
Students
Watch
" Before GoPro, if you wanted to have any footage of yourself doing anything, whether it's video or photo, you not only needed a camera, you needed another human being. And if you wanted the footage to be good, you needed that other human being to have skill with the camera. "
Nick Woodman
Yourself
You
Only
" Fear drives you a lot harder than success does. "
Nick Woodman
You
Than
Success