I can sell anything that I totally believe in but I’m a horrible salesman of something I don’t believe in

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 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.

If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.

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.

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

Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel.

Morality without kindness is the most dangerous weapon.

I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.

Success is not something you pursue. What you pursue will elude you; it can be like trying to chase butterflies. Success is something you attract by the person you become.

Now we've got the cables. We've got talk radio. We've got the bloggers. I hate the bloggers.

My dad used to play drums in a country band, and my mom is an incredible singer.

Women do well in their thirties. They put their bags down and say, 'This is who I am - like it or lump it.' There is a more relaxed quality, which I like.

I never thought of myself as a New York poet or as an American poet.

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement.