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" I can sell anything that I totally believe in, but I'm a horrible salesman of something I don't believe in. "

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" 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. "

" As long as we continue to execute, everything will work out for everybody at GoPro. "

" Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do. "

" A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A smartphone is a mobile computer in your pocket. "

" I have a GoPro in the trunk of my streetcar. "

" 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. "

" Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture. "

" People use GoPros to capture the experiences they are passionate about. "

" 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. "

" I don't want to wake up and see my kids going off to college and wonder what happened. "

" People are watching GoPro content not to decide whether they should buy it or not - they're watching it for the entertainment. "

" 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. "

" 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 lets people take other people along for the ride with them. "

" 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. "

" When I think about dropping team sports and picking up surfing and also then geeking out radio control planes and gadgetry and all that stuff I love, that's what really now has led me in big part to GoPro. "

" Automobiles are dangerous as all get-out. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was thirsty. "

" 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. "

" I want to want to go to work in the morning. "