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" One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's. "

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

" 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. "

" Things that burn very brightly, we wonder how long they can keep burning. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I'm half Puerto Rican. "

" 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. "

" Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive. "

" 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. "

" You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" If I walk up to a can of Red Bull, I'm thinking about Formula One; I'm thinking about incredible athletic performances. And it helps me choose that can over something else to either side of 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. "

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

" Fear drives you a lot harder than success does. "

" 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!' "