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" I'm not really a music person. "
Robert Kotick
Music
Person
Really
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" What you do in film and television is really different than what you do in video games. "
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You
Television
Games
" 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
Work
Focus
You
" I've been very, very lucky because I've had so many great mentors. "
Robert Kotick
Been
Because
Lucky
" If you want to retain your identity and culture, we're a really great mothership. If you want to sell out... there are definitely other companies to talk to. "
Robert Kotick
Identity
Culture
You
" 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. "
Robert Kotick
Belief
Games
Way
" 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. "
Robert Kotick
Game
Friends
Business
" 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. "
Robert Kotick
Sports
Gaming
Creating
" I think running Apple is a great job, but it suits Steve Jobs so well. I wouldn't want to be the person that ran Apple after Steve, but he has a great job. "
Robert Kotick
Apple
Great
Job
" We want to give our audiences flexibility in the way they're commercially engaged in the content. "
Robert Kotick
Way
Give
Flexibility
" 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. "
Robert Kotick
Creativity
Father
Success
" If you talk to people about the history of the games business during economic downturns, they'll tell you that it's a recession-proof industry. "
Robert Kotick
Talk
You
People
" I go to these cocktail parties now, and I say I make video games, and people go, 'Wow.' I can attract crowds. "
Robert Kotick
Go
Say
Now
" When I got to Activision, it was like a carnival. They had a recycling container filled with cans and a sign over it that said 'Activision Takeover Defense Fund.' Activision was making games based on passion and gut instinct. We needed to develop games based on P&L statements and what was going to sell. "
Robert Kotick
Over
Said
Carnival
" Our customers need to be satisfied that there is a price-value relationship that they feel great about. "
Robert Kotick
Need
Our
Feel
" Our responsibility is to deliver the most compelling content to our players. and if we do that, the audiences are there. "
Robert Kotick
Most
Responsibility
Players
" 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. "
Robert Kotick
People
Alone
You
" We'd love to see Led Zeppelin on 'Guitar Hero.' "
Robert Kotick
Hero
Led Zeppelin
Love
" 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. "
Robert Kotick
You
Business
Think
" 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. "
Robert Kotick
Quit
College
Art
" You put some things out there. Some work, some don't, and then one really takes off, and that pays for your failures. Then you go on to the next one. "
Robert Kotick
Work
Your
You
" We have an obligation to provide a return for our shareholders. "
Robert Kotick
Return
Obligation
Shareholders
" 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. "
Robert Kotick
Discipline
Play
Find
" I think the reason why video games are more popular as entertainment in difficult economies is that the cost per hour of video games is lower than any other form of entertainment. "
Robert Kotick
Think
Reason
Difficult
" The audience for 'World of Warcraft' is a pretty committed group of players. "
Robert Kotick
Group
Audience
Players
" Treyarch contributed so significantly to the multiplayer technology that's in 'Modern Warfare 2,' and they didn't really get the credit for that. "
Robert Kotick
Really
Credit
Get
" I ran a hot-dog-and-soda stand at Little League, and I started a business planning parties in high school. "
Robert Kotick
School
Planning
Business
" I really like video games, and that passion has never really gone away. "
Robert Kotick
Never
Gone
Games
" When employees can bring their full selves to work, we get the full benefit of all their perspectives and experiences. "
Robert Kotick
Experiences
Bring
Employees
" Our mission is to inspire audiences to play, connect, and compete by making the most engaging entertainment in the world, and our talent evaluation process ensures that each new hire shares that commitment. "
Robert Kotick
Play
Inspire
Commitment
" I never studied business. It's either in your DNA, or it isn't. "
Robert Kotick
Either
Never
Your