If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

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

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.

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.

'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

I've been in navigation systems, robotics, restaurants, communications systems, touch screens, and now I'm back in games. I like to say I have five-year A.D.D.

Innovation is hard. It really is. Because most people don't get it. Remember, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, these were all considered toys at their introduction because they had no constituency. They were too new.