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" Fear drives you a lot harder than success does. "
Nick Woodman
You
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Success
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" 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. "
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" I don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened. "
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" 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. "
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" Surfing is such an incredible experience with a huge ego element. "
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" When I got out of college, I gave myself till I was 30 to invent a product. If I couldn't do it by then, I would just get a real job. And that fear - the fear of a real job - motivated me to be an entrepreneur. "
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" I'm half Puerto Rican. "
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Rican
" 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. "
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" Automobiles are dangerous as all get-out. "
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" A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something. "
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" 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. "
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" GoPro's capture devices and Kolor's software will combine to deliver exciting and highly accessible solutions for capturing, creating, and sharing spherical content. "
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" 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. "
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Guy
" At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself. "
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Build
You
More
" I'm just extremely excited to explore the planet that we're living on. "
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Explore
Excited
Living
" 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. "
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Parents
Back
Week
" Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning. "
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Burn
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Keep
" People don't go buy GoPro for the thing; they buy it for what the thing does. "
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Thing
People
Buy
" 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. "
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People
You
Content
" In the early years, I would say GoPro's products were not that impressive. "
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Products
Years
" 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. "
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Purpose
" 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. "
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" I'll let myself obsess over things. "
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Myself
Things
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" 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!' "
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Me
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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