Satoru Iwata Quotes

I don't think there is any franchise more powerful than ours around securing the consumer experience and we will not concede that to anyone including Microsoft.

I admit that the direct model has done a lot for Dell. That's the only thing the company has ever really accomplished.

We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.

Great companies are built on great products.

It's still a bottom-line business. You can be out of control, and if they want you, they'll pick you. And you can be a mensch, and if you're not the product they want, you won't get it.

It's easier to build a business around a first-class product, even if it's a more expensive product to produce.

This is a business. Be smart. Choose wisely.

The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.

Apple is a failure because they missed social? Nobody would say that, because they are having great success.

We really must recover our financial performance and take Nintendo back into the position in the marketplace where it is well appreciated.

All things can be done by every company in the world. Apple builds a phone, and so does Samsung. It's not about being different but about being better at what you do.

If you look at the numbers from 2002 to 2016, we have consistently been market leaders. We have followed a well-articulated strategy, and our focus is to continue that strategy.

You can't be in a certain business and not sell to Amazon or not sell to Wal-Mart. You have to reckon with them, because even though there are other buyers, they're the only buyers that matter.

The biggest challenge to thriving in the marketplace is identifying the strategic moves that will keep us ahead of the competition.

Market share is key.

To have a high basketball IQ, I think you have to be unselfish, but also selfish at the same time. To be able to say, okay, I know this is going to work, so let's do it.

Just because we're Knopf doesn't mean we shouldn't sell books as well as any other publisher in the land.

As a company itself, Apple is very easy to understand. They're really not a complex company.

I know my talents well - I know my head well - so when I go onto the pitch, I know perfectly what I have to do.

In training when I'm receiving the ball I always know where I want to go. At the end of the day it's just soccer.

I think that Amazon made an incredible play with the Twitch purchase.

You can talk about systems until you're blue in the face but that's secondary - if you're closing down, if you're first to the ball, it doesn't really matter what system you've got.

My desire has always been to be the leader in an industry.

I have no problem with money coming in and spawning competition. I am honest enough to admit that Mahindra & Mahindra would not have been going to the IITs and doing research if there was no competition.

Of course I'm not stupid enough to think that we could take on WWE head-on and win, because they're too big of a monster.