Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.
Nolan Bushnell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Nolan Bushnell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 5
Computer Scientist
Engineer
Entrepreneur
Inventor
Clearfield
Utah
Nolan Key Bushnell
Love
Spots
People
Noise
Product
Products
Sweet
Rest
Refine
Business
Figuring
Make
Spot
More quotes by Nolan Bushnell
You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.
Nolan Bushnell
Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.
Nolan Bushnell
The subtle generational cues that make one thing cool and another uncool aren't always obvious to a parent. My children are my dinner-table sounding board. I've come up with some wonderful ideas that they universally dismissed as 'lame.'
Nolan Bushnell
If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck
Nolan Bushnell
Walk to work, even if it's four miles. Ride a bike to work. Drive a different way. On your way there, try to find beauty. You'd be surprised how much more of the neighborhood you can perceive and experience when you're looking for unique spots of beauty.
Nolan Bushnell
Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail.
Nolan Bushnell
In 1989, SimCity introduced an entirely new brand of game play.
Nolan Bushnell
People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.
Nolan Bushnell
I'm a big believer in the Wii. I love the physicality of the Wii controller, and how you can get the feeling of throwing a bowling ball or swinging a golf club. Those are the kinds of games I really like.
Nolan Bushnell
Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.
Nolan Bushnell
Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.
Nolan Bushnell
A lot of what is wrong with corporate America has to do with a culture filled with antibodies trained to expel anything different. HR departments often want cookie cutter employees, which inevitably results in cookie cutter solutions.
Nolan Bushnell
Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
Nolan Bushnell
I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.
Nolan Bushnell
I don't think people understand how much hard work innovation is. That it's not just getting an idea. You really have to cross your T's and dot your I's long before you ever start on the project. I don't think people perceive that about me. I work hard.
Nolan Bushnell
Every company needs to have a skunkworks, to try things that have a high probability of failing. You try to minimize failure, but at the same time, if you're not willing to try things that are inherently risky, you're not going to make progress.
Nolan Bushnell
The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.
Nolan Bushnell
People hate to and will not read instructions.
Nolan Bushnell
The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.
Nolan Bushnell
The true entrepreneur is a doer
Nolan Bushnell