"Ninety percent of games lose money; 10 percent make a lot of money. And theres a consistency around the competitive advantages you create, so if you can actually learn how to do the art, the design, and the programming, you would be consistently very profitable."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Gabe Newell

#Art Quotes #Games Quotes #Design Quotes

“It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say â€œwe" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.”
“Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.”
“A television picture or a movie might be lost forever, but your book is waiting.”
“The word 'hate' is a very carefully chosen word. There's got to be a real sense of revulsion and disgust. People are looking for someone to blame, someone who's the cause of their problems, and it should be the gun industry. These guys are the living embodiment of the slogan, 'Guns don't kill people-people kill people'. They're complete mercenaries.”
“When placed in command, take charge.”

Source : "Leadership". Book by David M. Atkinson, p. 42, 2007.
“Each suicidal drama occurs in the mind of a unique individual.”

Source : Edwin S. Shneidman (1998). “The Suicidal Mind”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA
“You want what you can't have. And if someone's being shitty to you, just move on. If someone's being shitty to you, no matter how great they are, that's shitty, and you don't want be with someone who treats you shitty.”
“Two in distressmake sorrow less.”

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