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" I feel like I went through the Great Depression. All these companies are being successful around you, you're on that track, and then the market collapses, and you're out of a job. You're trying to save your investors' investment, and it doesn't work, and you sell the company for nothing. It was brutal. "

Nick Woodman

Job

Feel

Depression

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" What makes 4K so interesting is it captures lifelike cinema-quality video. "

" 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. "

Nick Woodman

Sports

Think

" 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. "

" Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" People don't go buy GoPro for the thing; they buy it for what the thing does. "

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

Nick Woodman

Want

Morning

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

Nick Woodman

Streetcar

Trunk

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

" 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. "

" In the early years, I would say GoPro's products were not that impressive. "

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

" I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people. "

Nick Woodman

People

Way

" GoPro's capture devices and Kolor's software will combine to deliver exciting and highly accessible solutions for capturing, creating, and sharing spherical content. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I'm half Puerto Rican. "

" 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 think that that's something that's pretty interesting about a GoPro - it's the one camera that we know of that you can combine with like cameras to form new cameras. So it's a bit of a modular system. "

" Automobiles are dangerous as all get-out. "

Nick Woodman

Dangerous

Automobiles

" On the road and traveling - that's when people are at their most creative. "

" 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. "