Trip Hawkins
Trip Hawkins
Trip Hawkinsis an American entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts, The 3DO Company, and Digital Chocolate...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth28 December 1953
CountryUnited States of America
Trip Hawkins quotes about
way scared being-scared
The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.
trying machines titles
And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.
keys games focus
We also had good software in the key categories and more focus on the gameplaying capability, so more of the marketing effort was targeted at game customers.
mistake successful entrepreneur
If you're going to be a successful entrepreneur, you're going to have to be somebody who can tolerate a high rate of change, you have to be willing to put a lot more hours into it, you have to tolerate the fact that you're going to make more mistakes and have a culture that responds to that.
moments arcades fashionable
Polygons are fashionable at the moment - particularly in the arcades.
healthy pace gamer
Online console gaming will continue to grow at a healthy pace.
running giving next
From day one our next generation system will run all our exsisting software - so that gives us a head start.
different done hopefully
You have to be doing something very different from what everybody else is doing, hopefully different from what's ever been done before - something that nobody's thought of yet.
mistake moving personality
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 it. After that, we want to make different mistakes. We don't want to keep making the same mistakes.'
mistake entrepreneur territory
You know you're gonna have failures, there's no way to avoid it. Especially if you're an entrepreneur, if you're doing something new, of course there are gonna be mistakes. How can you not make mistakes? You don't know what you're going; it's unchartered territory.
numbers want defeat
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 feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.
years two apples
If you look at any institution in history - look at the Roman Empire - anything in history, and what it looks like when it's peaking. Look at Apple, and how can you say it's not peaking? ... The thing is, it may take another year or two before it starts to decline, but it has to - everything does.
way historic printing
[The PlayStation 2 is a] historic, a mass-market appliance that fundamentally changes society in the way the printing press did.
technology differences get-better
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 generation and second generation.