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" Don't focus on reaching the C-Suite. Focus on doing great work and serving your customers and community. That's how you can find the right opportunities and get the skills and experience to get to the top in your career. "

Robert Kotick

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Robert Kotick

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" Activision Blizzard has always been about inspiring play, competition, and community for our fans and employees, and that hasn't changed. "

" It's about really being considerate of the culture in the game studios that Activision buys. That's the biggest difference between us and any of our competitors. "

Robert Kotick

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" One of the reasons the games business has become more popular and more broadly appealing is that it's gone from this very solitary experience to this very social experience. "

" I ran a hot-dog-and-soda stand at Little League, and I started a business planning parties in high school. "

" I think Steve Wynn, who was like my mentor and a second father, has been a great inspiration. He's a great mentor because he's a guy who's had great business success but also has always been driven by creativity - and inspired creativity. "

" I've been very, very lucky because I've had so many great mentors. "

" All my life, I've been the rebel in the X-wing fighter, and then one morning, I woke up, and I was on board the Death Star. "

" To allow our audiences to watch more professionally produced video content, we acquired Major League Gaming - MLG - and we expect MLG to become the 'ESPN of Videogames' with a focus on the celebration of gamers, both amateur and professionals. "

" As business models evolve, as the way you distribute content evolves, as the ability to do things online changes in terms of pricing or trial or sample, I think we've definitely always been out in front of the rest of our competitors. "

" The social element has really transformed the gaming experience. "

" If it's compelling and engaging enough, customers will consider paying for it. If we don't deliver something that has value, we won't expect value in return. "

" We have an obligation to provide a return for our shareholders. "

" Veterans Day is a time to reflect and renew our commitment to ensure our military heroes have the tools to reintegrate successfully back to civilian life. "

" It's very easy to criticize the CEO of the market leader. "

" Very early on, when I was in my twenties, Steve Jobs convinced me to quit college. He talked to me after I had spent about a year in Michigan studying the history of art. "

" In the mid 1980s, video games as an industry had lost its way a bit. Atari had collapsed. There was this widespread collective belief that it was because video games were a fad. "

" Professional gaming competitions are creating celebrities who are recognized and revered as athletes were in prior generations. Spectator gaming is becoming as popular as mainstream sports. "

" What I'm good at is making sure we have the best resources, the best talent, the best marketing, and the best access to distribution. "

" We don't view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games. "

" What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games. "

" The ways that you innovate within a franchise are not inconsistent with the ways that you create new franchises. "

" Our customers need to be satisfied that there is a price-value relationship that they feel great about. "

" Most people play games alone, against the machine. But if you're playing against a real person, it's going to be that much more fun. "

" If I go play 'Modern Warfare,' I'll find a hundred different things I'd like done differently. And I don't have the discipline to not express my opinion. "

" The video game business is primarily a male-oriented business. And I have three girls. And you see the things that are important to them in their game experiences are the social interaction. They love the ability to chat with their friends. They love the ability to have some connection online with other people. "

" We'd love to see Led Zeppelin on 'Guitar Hero.' "

" I would have 'Call of Duty' be an online subscription service tomorrow. I think our audiences are clamouring for it. "

" I'm not really a music person. "

" I really like video games, and that passion has never really gone away. "