Nick Woodman Quotes
Top 58 wise famous quotes and sayings by Nick Woodman
Nick Woodman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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The smartphone killed the traditional camera industry because it subsumed all the functions of a traditional camera.
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.
I learned that most people buy based on emotion, not on a rational breakdown of the product or service.
A smartphone is great for when one person is documenting another thing or another person doing something.
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.
I come from surfing, and surfing is the worst cool-guy industry of all. I decided long ago to try and kill the cool guy.
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.
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.
People are watching GoPro content not to decide whether they should buy it or not - they're watching it for the entertainment.
Everyone has an idea over time of what the business should be, and during the formative period, too many opinions could be disruptive.
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.
I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people.
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.
At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself.
I come into work late morning time and go at it until early evening, and I'm lucky that I'm at the point where I'm able to do that.
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.'
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 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.
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.
You don't have to raise millions of dollars to be successful, you just have to work on something you are passionate about.
Disney produces fabulous movies around certain characters, and then they commercialize that engagement through toys, books, cruises.
You must, as an entrepreneur - if that's your position - be doing things that really move the needle.
If I didn't follow my passion for surfing ... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.
Keeping people fired up starts with having a really clear vision for what the company is aiming to do.
One of my mentors early on was Eli Harari, the founder of SanDisk, who happened to be a friend of my dad's.
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.
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.