Bobby Kotick Quotes

Bobby Kotick

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 1, 1963

Being able to evolve great franchises over time is the foundation of world-class entertainment companies.

Bobby Kotick

Autonomy leads to empowerment. We work hard to maintain a balance between collaboration and cooperation and independence.

Bobby Kotick

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.

Bobby Kotick

Just reskinning games with our intellectual property is not an appealing prospect for opportunity. That isn't something that creates long-term value for shareholders.

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Mobile gaming is the largest and fastest-growing opportunity for interactive entertainment, and we will have one of the world's most successful mobile game companies and its talented teams providing great content to new customers, in new geographies, throughout the world.

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You find out two executives are planning to break their contracts, keep the money you gave them, and steal 40 employees. What do you do? You fire them.

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Looking ahead, we see the popularity of eSports exploding as competitive gaming becomes more mainstream and eSports leagues like 'Call of Duty' World League and Overwatch League driving greater engagement and viewership.

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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.

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In our early days, being recognized on any list of great companies was hard to imagine. There were times when we sold the office furniture to make payroll.

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Successful business leaders who have helped build institutions of lasting value - all are committed to talent and a culture of excellence. This is usually accomplished by the identification, retention, and development of great people.

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We like people with the potential to be leaders of leaders, not managers of managers.

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The engineering, analytics, design, testing, and delivery behind our products offer some of the hardest engineering and business challenges in the world. As we've brought our franchises into eSports and moved to digital delivery, it's become even more complex and exciting - which, in turn, has allowed us attract even more top talent.

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People have been playing versions of 'World of Warcraft' since 1994, and it's still the world's leading subscription-based MMO.

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When you dig down and look at the people who are vocal in their criticism of me, it's a small number.

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'Guitar Hero' was much more about us not innovating in a way that was appealing to audiences. It's not about oversaturating the market.

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I like what I'm doing. If I didn't like what I was doing, I'd be doing something else.

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If you look at the history of our company, we don't do a lot of acquisition. The reason is, we need to see that people are culturally and philosophically aligned with the way that we approach the business.

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Whether they're paying for it or not is not really relevant. They're investing a significant amount of time in our content. At some point, commercial opportunities will materialise for greater percentages of that audience.

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When we created Overwatch at Blizzard, it was always with the expectation that we would be able to celebrate and recognize our players in a way that would be consistent with traditional sports.

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It's private enterprise that can create jobs and fill them. It's business that can train people and make them productive tax-payers. And it's America Inc. that has the most to gain from tapping this extraordinary human resource.

Bobby Kotick