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As you grow up, you become more comfortable with your own peccadilloes, and I'm bad with people who aren't self-motivated. And now, when I see them coming, I run the other way.
Bing Gordon
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If you don't measure yourself by achievement, how are you going to set achievement levels for other people?
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I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
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Even as an 18-year-old, I had to grow comfortable with my leadership style, which is that I was really impatient with under-motivated people - extremely impatient, to the point where I was counterproductive as a manager of underproductive people. And that hasn't really changed. If people need to be motivated, I'm no good.
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The first time I had a secretary, I was sheepish about being demanding or even asking questions.
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When we started EA in 1982, our goal was to make games as big a media as visual entertainment or movies. That was how big we dreamed at the time.
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Once you find out that someone likes a certain game on Facebook, now you know what kind of virtual gift you can get them. You can send them a little decoration. Social games give you goals where you can help and reward your friends.
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The 1980s was a time of the great recession of interactive entertainment. When Atari fell in 1982, until Nintendo launched its console, video games were an outcast for five years.
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In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.
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Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
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I'm a huge believer in learning anything from multiple points of view.
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I believe in books. I believe more in 'cross-media' - how characters are adapting across mediums.
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