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Bobby Kotick
American
Businessman
Born:
Mar 1
,
1963
Business
Great
People
Think
World
You
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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.
Bobby Kotick
Responsibility
Our
Deliver
Most
Content
Audiences
Compelling
Players
I go to these cocktail parties now, and I say I make video games, and people go, 'Wow.' I can attract crowds.
Bobby Kotick
Video Games
People
Cocktail
Say
Wow
Crowds
Attract
Parties
Make
Go
Video
Games
Now
Activision Blizzard has always been about inspiring play, competition, and community for our fans and employees, and that hasn't changed.
Bobby Kotick
Competition
Fans
Employees
Community
Changed
Our
About
Inspiring
Always
Blizzard
Been
Play
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
Work
Great
You
Experience
Opportunities
Focus
Community
Top
Find
Reaching
Great Work
How
Doing
Get
Customers
Skills
Your
Right
Serving
Career
The ways that you innovate within a franchise are not inconsistent with the ways that you create new franchises.
Bobby Kotick
You
Innovate
Franchise
Ways
New
Within
Create
Inconsistent
We'd love to see Led Zeppelin on 'Guitar Hero.'
Bobby Kotick
Love
Guitar
Hero
See
Led
Led Zeppelin
Zeppelin
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.
Bobby Kotick
Discipline
Hundred
Find
Like
Opinion
Go
Modern
Done
Different
Modern Warfare
Warfare
Express
Different Things
Play
Differently
Things
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.
Bobby Kotick
History
You
Business
People
Tell
About
Economic
Talk
Industry
The History Of
Games
I've been very, very lucky because I've had so many great mentors.
Bobby Kotick
Great
Mentors
Had
Because
Been
Very
Many
Lucky
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.
Bobby Kotick
Art
Me
History
College
Year
Spent
Jobs
About
About A Year
Had
He
Studying
Steve
Steve Jobs
Talked
Very
Michigan
Quit
The History Of
After
Convinced
Twenties
Early
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
Success
Great
Business
Creativity
Father
Think
Great Business
Has-Been
Guy
Inspiration
Mentor
Inspired
Driven
Had
He
Like
Steve
Also
Because
Always
Been
Who
Second
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.
Bobby Kotick
Video Games
Collective
Lost
Way
Bit
Collapsed
Atari
Had
Fad
Industry
Because
Were
Mid
Video
Games
Belief
Widespread
I just don't want to pay taxes.
Bobby Kotick
Pay
Just
Want
Taxes
What I'm good at is making sure we have the best resources, the best talent, the best marketing, and the best access to distribution.
Bobby Kotick
Best
Good
Resources
Marketing
Distribution
Talent
Sure
Access
Making
I never studied business. It's either in your DNA, or it isn't.
Bobby Kotick
Business
Never
Studied
Either
Your
You put some things out there. Some work, some don't, and then one really takes off, and that pays for your failures. Then you go on to the next one.
Bobby Kotick
Work
You
Out
Some
Some Things
Put
Takes
Failures
Go
Off
Then
Really
Next
Your
Pays
Things
We've always operated under the belief that you could run a video game business as professionally as you could run a consumer packaged goods business, and you wouldn't diminish creativity.
Bobby Kotick
You
Game
Business
Creativity
Diminish
Run
Could
Consumer
Goods
Operated
Always
Packaged
Video
Video Game
Belief
Professionally
We don't view the App Store as a really big opportunity for dedicated games.
Bobby Kotick
Opportunity
Big
Big Opportunity
Store
Really
View
App
Dedicated
Games
The audience for 'World of Warcraft' is a pretty committed group of players.
Bobby Kotick
World
Group
Pretty
Audience
Committed
Warcraft
Players
The social element has really transformed the gaming experience.
Bobby Kotick
Experience
Transformed
Social
Really
Gaming
Element
Autonomy leads to empowerment. We work hard to maintain a balance between collaboration and cooperation and independence.
Bobby Kotick
Work
Balance
Work Hard
Independence
Collaboration
Maintain
Between
Leads
Empowerment
Autonomy
Hard
Cooperation
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.
Bobby Kotick
Patriotism
Women
People
Matter
Heroes
Men
Men And Women
Sacrifice
Every
Everyone
Our
Recognize
Give
Advantage
Policies
Led
American
Where
Conflicts
Them
Uniform
Depth
Stand
Agree
Deserve
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.
Bobby Kotick
Focus
Become
Gamers
Our
More
Both
Allow
League
Major
Major League
Content
Audiences
Amateur
Celebration
Expect
ESPN
Video
Acquired
Videogames
Produced
Gaming
Professionally
Professionals
Watch
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.
Bobby Kotick
Great
Business
Culture
People
Value
Build
Lasting
Great People
Excellence
Retention
Leaders
Development
Talent
Institutions
Identification
Accomplished
Committed
Successful
Business Leaders
Who
Helped
When employees can bring their full selves to work, we get the full benefit of all their perspectives and experiences.
Bobby Kotick
Work
Employees
Benefit
Selves
Get
Experiences
Perspectives
Full
Bring
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.
Bobby Kotick
Sports
Celebrate
Expectation
Our
Way
Consistent
Recognize
Would
Would-Be
Able
Always
Blizzard
Traditional
Created
Players
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