Hiroshi Yamauchi

“And he's sitting across from me, and Yamoichi says, I can't give you any programmers. I said, I don't need programmers. I just need money. And he says, how much? And I said, gosh, I mean, I, I'm thinking of what's the biggest number I can think of right now. A…”

“If he ever found out that one of his underlings had canceled a meeting, that person would be fired.”

“Whenever I met him after that, I always set up the meeting on a day when I'm the last meeting. His last meeting, and then we would play Go for the rest of the day. I had all this one-on-one time with Yamauchi, which nobody had.”

“I said, ok, I'll pay you a dollar per unit until you get your money back. Deal. And so that's how I became a Nintendo publisher.”

“And I realize, this guy's never Played any of the games on his machine. Yeah. And he hasn't, he's just run the company. He hasn't like played any of those games.”