Quotes from Nick Woodman

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 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.

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

A really important thing when you come up with a concept is that you solve a pervasive problem for people, and you don't try to create a new way to do something that isn't necessarily broken.

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

My twenties were my practice. My thirties were when I really hit my stride with GoPro and did all the heavy lifting to build the business.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

As soon as I stopped trying to think about a business idea and started focusing on what I'm passionate about, that's when it came to me.

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

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.

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.

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