[on Swinging For The Fences] Ultimately, You

You Can Be Entrepreneurial Even If You Don’t Want To Be In Business. You Can Be A Social Entrepreneur Focused On The Not-for-profit Sector. You Can Be An Agriculture Entrepreneur If You Want To Change How People Think About Farming. You Can Be A Policy Entrepreneur If You Want To Go Into Government. The Idea Of An Entrepreneur Is Really Thinking Out Of The Box And Taking Risks And Stepping Up To Major Challenges.

I Do Think That People Have An Obligation To Give Back But That Doesn't Necessarily Mean That You Give Back Just The Traditional Way. Maybe There's New Ways To Give Back And Make A Contribution. I'm Looking Forward To Some Mix Of Philanthropy - Maybe Through A Somewhat Different Prism - As Well As Helping Entrepreneurs Build Some Significant New Businesses.

And What We Did With This New Company In 1985 Is We Did Start Focusing On Pcs Instead Of Video Game Machines, Because We Learned The Hard Lesson About Bringing A Product To Market In A Consumer World Where It's Very Expensive To Build A Brand And Get Distribution And So Forth.

All Great Ideas Start As Weird Ideas. What Now Seems Obvious, Early On, Is Not Obvious To Anybody.

If You're Doing Something New You've Got To Have A Vision. You've Got To Have A Perspective. You've Got To Have Some North Star You're Aiming For, And You Just Believe Somehow You'll Get There, Which Kind Of Gets To The Passion Point.