A lot of people think that success is luck and being in the right place at the right time. But I think if you’re willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create an awful lot of your own luck.

My sweet spot is figuring out how to make a product that people love and how to refine it to make them love it more. All the rest is business noise.

In 1980, business at my company, Chuck E. Cheese's, was thriving and I was feeling flush. So I bought a very large house on the Champ de Mars in Paris, right between the Eiffel Tower and the Ecole Militaire. The home was quite amazing: At six stories, it spanned 15,000 square feet and featured marble staircases and a swimming pool in the basement.

When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'