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" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" I was inspired by how Red Bull isn't about the drink; it isn't about the product or the can. Red Bull is a platform to celebrate all that humans are capable of accomplishing. They built a lifestyle movement, a brand that sold this product. "

" Viral word-of-mouth marketing for GoPro is massive. Video is really the conduit. "

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

" I'm half Puerto Rican. "

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

" Automobiles are dangerous as all get-out. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You know what the best thing about morning ski trips are? McDonald's! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Losing other people's money was terrible. "

" Now I'm the father of three young boys, I find myself using GoPro to film them more than anything - trips to the amusement park, the beach, the pool - just chasing them around as they grow. "

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

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" I lost $4 million of other people's money between the ages of 24 and 26. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Bootstrapping allows you total creative freedom. For example, if you decide to approach your business in a certain way that makes it a two- or three-year process to get to your first product, you can do that, versus being rushed into it by investors. "

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

" 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.' "