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If you always wanted to wait for something better, you'd never buy anything, right?

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Trip Hawkins
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: December 28
Entrepreneur
Pasadena
California
Anything
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The way companies hang on to their marketshare is by being scared.
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[PlayStation 2] is a new canvas for humanity that takes us back to our nature.
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And initially, a lot of companies avoid trying to make a really radical new kind of title for a new system, because that would involve learning a new machine and learning how to make the new title at the same time.
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I can't tell you how important it was for us to be successful in japan.
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