"So my resolution this year is: I'm not a money guy, but I want to make our next product a commercial success, so that people will say, 'Hey, there's a huge market out there. If you make a high-quality games that can touch people, it's going to do great business."

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Source : "An interview with Jenova Chen: How Journey’s creator went bankrupt and won game of the year". Interview with Dean Takahashi, venturebeat.com. February 8, 2013.

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“My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going.”
“Neither fear nor self-interest can convert the soul. They may change the appearance, perhaps even the conduct, but never the object of supreme desire... Fear is the motive which constrains the slave; greed binds the selfish man, by which he is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed (James 1:14). But neither fear nor self-interest is undefiled, nor can they convert the soul. Only charity can convert the soul, freeing it from unworthy motives.”
“There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.”
“When you take a pause before delivering your punch line, you will be using silence as a creative entity in itself.”
“As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.”
“Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.”
“I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.”
“I don't like the idea of telling private business owners - I abhor racism. I think it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody from your restaurant - but, at the same time, I do believe in private ownership. But I absolutely think there should be no discrimination in anything that gets any public funding.”

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