Nick Woodman Quotes

I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.

I want to be an inventor in the real sense.

I have too many ideas for a lifetime.

I've always been an idea person, so I've always been great at having ideas, just not having the resources to make them happen.

Invent. I love inventing, that's my first passion.

I have a supermarket full of ideas and the challenge is how many ideas can I get in my cart before I'm gone. When you're doing it, you're not focused on success. It's not a matter of modesty. You're simply trying to get all the things done that you want to get done in your life.

I've been an amature inventor for a long time.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

I'm not a designer, I'm an inventor.

From the day I got out of school, I was looking for an idea.

I consider myself an inventor first and an entrepreneur second. In real life, my hero is Thomas Edison. He was a great inventor, but also an outstanding entrepreneur who was able to sell his inventions to the masses. He didn't just develop the light bulb; he invented the entire electric grid and power distribution system.

After I graduated from Brandeis, I took all the money I had in the world, which was $5,000, and I made a short film. I made every mistake you could possibly make. It was a total disaster as a piece of work, and yet, you know, it was ambitious in some way.

Everything begins with an idea.

I'm an inventor.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

My training and my inclination is to invent.

I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.

I have ideas saved on my computer that I visit from time to time to see if one may shine and motivate me.

I would consider myself an inventor at heart, or reinventor.

I wanted to be an inventor, whatever I thought that meant then. I guess I was thinking of Edison or maybe James Watt. Or maybe even Newton.

If you're trying to invent something new, you're going to reach a lot of discouraging points, and most people give up.

I used to be an amateur inventor when I was a kid; I'm always inventing something.

I am the primitive of the method I have invented.

I want to create an environment where I can create technology, get it into the hands of someone to market it, and move on to other technologies so I can keep innovating. I want to be a serial entrepreneur: Incubate an idea, get it to a good state, and make that an enabler to get to the next state. It's every researcher's fantasy.

If you don't feel you're reaching something new, then don't do it.