The World Motivation
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.
“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.”
— Nick Woodman · Business
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.
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.
At a certain point, the services that you build around the hardware become more important than the hardware itself.
I still drink a couple of Red Bulls every day.
Smartphones are always in your pocket. They're about reactive capture.
Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.
I don't want to plan my career. That would be a business plan. Filmmaking is not a business plan.
I've met some very powerful, amazing women in this business but they always seem to be just underneath the man.
One of the more morbid parts of the journalism business is the process of writing obituaries. Oftentimes, for older celebrities or historic figures, there's a rough draft obit on hand so that the moment the person passes you can go straight to publication.
It might take some here and there, but Apple's market share in the global computer business has really shrunk pretty far, and where they've been making success recently is not in the computer business but in the iPod music business.