One quality of entrepreneurship is just persistence, not giving up because you have road blocks and also not giving in because other people tell you that you're nuts. You are nuts and you should be proud of it. Stick with… — 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
