Bobby Kotick Quotes

Bobby Kotick

Profession : Businessman

Birth : March 1, 1963

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.

Bobby Kotick

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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Treyarch contributed so significantly to the multiplayer technology that's in 'Modern Warfare 2,' and they didn't really get the credit for that.

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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.

Bobby Kotick

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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