Bobby Kotick Quotes

Bobby Kotick

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 1, 1963

No matter where people stand on the policies that led to the conflicts, Americans recognize the depth of sacrifice and patriotism of our men and women in uniform. Everyone agrees these heroes deserve every advantage we can give them.

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Veterans have the skills employers want - discipline, motivation, leadership, and the ability to work on a team. They have made the U.S. military the most effective and respected in the world.

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Our troops are home. It's time for American business to replace the yellow ribbons with help wanted signs.

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The most important thing we do to encourage innovation is give people the freedom to fail. And I think you can articulate that and establish that as a value in a lot of different ways. I don't want to say celebrate the failures, but in a lot of respects, it's sort of that.

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One thing that probably is unique at Activision is that we really spend a lot of time up front with our audiences, and in big quantities and with a very thoughtful process, to really try and draw out from them what it is that they would like to play. So we have a pretty good sense going in what the expectation of the audience is.

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I think a lot of the time we end up taking people who - and this is sort of a big cultural advantage at Activision - we find people who are, have a graduate degree of some kind - mainly it's in the sciences - and they are in jobs that would never suggest that they were working for anything game related but that they're passionate gamers.

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I think that's the responsibility of the CEO and the CEOs below me: to make sure that we're constantly putting people in places where they have the opportunity to develop into those careers but also having a rewards and recognition system that allows a great programmer to stay as a great programmer.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We want to give our audiences flexibility in the way they're commercially engaged in the content.

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Our responsibility is to deliver the most compelling content to our players. and if we do that, the audiences are there.

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How do you expect people to actually join the military if, when they leave the military, they can't integrate back into the free market they're supposed to be protecting?

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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.

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I go to these cocktail parties now, and I say I make video games, and people go, 'Wow.' I can attract crowds.

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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.

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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.

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When employees can bring their full selves to work, we get the full benefit of all their perspectives and experiences.

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The Call of Duty Endowment is a natural philanthropic extension of our brand.

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