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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
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Nolan Bushnell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: February 5
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In 1980, Atari was bringing in around two billion dollars in revenue and Chuck E. Cheese's some five hundred million. I still didn't feel too bad that I had turned down a one-third ownership of Apple - although I was beginning to think it might turn out to be a mistake.
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People hate to and will not read instructions.
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Hire for passion and intensity there is training for everything else.
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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.
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My perception is that I'm a guy who really does a lot of homework surrounding any project that I do.
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Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.
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Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet have transformed the business landscape forever. The fast-paced digital age has accelerated the need for companies to become agile.
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I think 'Something Ventured' is a nice piece because it celebrates venture capital in a unique and powerful way.
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People like secrets. Creative people really like secrets.
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I guess I'd like to be known for being an innovator, fostering creativity, thinking outside the box. You know, keeping people playful.
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I like games where you can use stealth and guile. As you get older, it's like the difference between playing squash and racketball. Squash is an older man's game, because if you're stealthy and wily, you can beat a better-co-ordinated and stronger, younger person.
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I try to get a vision of the future, and then I try to figure out where the discontinuities are.
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I've always been a tech-head.
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The best ideas lose their owners and take on lives of their own.
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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.'
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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.
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If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck
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We're moving away from a credentialed society to a merit society.
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The truth is just an excuse for lack of imagination.
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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.
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