You can't get anywhere without incredible passion, because if you're an entrepreneur, there's gonna be a lot of bumps in the road. A great artist has to do their art. There's nothing that can stop them from doing it. They… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
I thought, 'Okay, what's going to be my edge, and how am I going to define what I'm doing differently?' Once I had that key idea of the software developer as an artist, once I had that idea, a whole bunch of other ideas flowed from that, because I realized that I need to go study the music industry, I… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share
If you look at any institution in history - look at the Roman Empire - anything in history, and what it looks like when… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that more performance wouldn't be better - all these technologies are going to get better - that's the difference between first… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
So the guy that we're really targeting our system at this year is one of the guys who brought a 16bit system three or… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
We'll look at the japanese launch as a model and aspire to have things go as well as they did over there. — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with what you believe in. — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share Image
You have to have the kind of personality where you're resilient and you can get up and keep moving and learn what there is. What I tell my employees is, 'I want you to make mistakes. If you're not making mistakes, you're not trying hard enough. But, when we make a mistake, let's all study it. Let's all learn from… — Trip Hawkins Copy Share
