John Sculley
Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out.Collection: Design
We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.Collection: Family
The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs's genius is his ability to use technology to create products that define fundamental cultural shifts.Collection: Technology
When I left Apple, it had $2 billion of cash. It was the most profitable computer company in the world - not just personal computers - and Apple was the number one selling computer.Collection: Computers
The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.Collection: Future
I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.Collection: Chance
Timing in life is everything.
Stay the course and keep building an integrated Apple ecosystem of iPhone + iPod + iMac + iTunes + App Store + Apple TV. No one has yet demonstrated they understand how to create an 'experience-based ecosystem' as well as Apple.
People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.
In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.
Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.
If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.
Implementers aren't considered bozos anymore.
Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex.
It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.
There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.
Apple makes really good products, and Samsung makes really good products. It's really a two-horse race. Where I think Apple is exposed: the price points of Apple's products are just so high by comparison with Samsung's.
Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.
I didn't appreciate, coming out of corporate America... what it meant to a founder, the creator of the Macintosh, to be asked to step down from the very division that he created to lead the very product that he believed was going to change the world.
My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.
I never claimed to be a computer engineer, but I did train as an industrial designer, and I am a consumer marketer, and I am very comfortable dealing with complex businesses and complexity in general and simplifying it - basically a systems designer.
Healthcare has been the last major industry that hasn't been touched by technology in terms of productivity and consumer adoption in the way so many other industries have.
Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on.
I think that televisions are unnecessarily complex. The irony is that as the pictures get better and the choice of content gets broader, that the complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated.
Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.
The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.
As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.
Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.
The only thing I would say is, I think there's a lot of future value in Blackberry, but without experienced people who have run this type of business, and without a strategic plan, it would be really challenging.
I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature.
We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world where people will be reimbursed for the outcomes - did the patient actually get better, and what was the total cost of the cycle of care.
I think that the health care industry is so complex that it doesn't necessarily start with a single killer app. You go back to the early days of the personal computer - when I joined the industry, we really didn't know what the killer app was going to be.
The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.
Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market.
I think that Apple has revolutionized every other consumer industry; why not television? The complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated. So it seems exactly the sort of problem that if anyone is going to change the experience of what the first principles are, it is going to be Apple.
One thing about Apple is they have these fanboys - as I always say, 'Sell to the people who love us.' For example when they came up with iPad mini, everyone who had an iPad went out and bought a mini as well.
Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.
If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.Collection: Courage
You can't be No. 1 unless you think like No. 1. You have to appear like No. 1.Collection: Thinking
Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.Collection: Innovation
People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.Collection: People
No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative dataCollection: Business
In the industrial age, the CEO sat on the top of the hierarchy and didn't have to listen to anybody ... In the information age, you have to listen to the ideas of people regardless of where they are in the organization.Collection: Organization
Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.Collection: Business
Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.Collection: Education
Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.Collection: Marketing
What makes Steve [Jobs'] methodology different from everyone else's is that he always believed the most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do. He's a minimalist.Collection: Jobs
The characteristics that I look for when I'm looking for really good entrepreneurs to lead companies are you have to have an inquiring mind, you have to say there must be a better way to do things, and now with technology at a point where everything is possible, how do we turn the possible into the probable? And it all starts with a passion to do something really well, to solve a problem in a way that's never been solved before, and to have just an incredible work ethic, to be persistent.Collection: Passion
I feel most badly, though, [because] after 10 years, I was at the company, I wanted to go back to New York where I was from. Why I didn’t go to Steve Jobs and say, ‘Steve, let’s figure out how you can come back and lead your company.’ I didn’t do that, it was a terrible mistake on my part. I can’t figure out why I didn’t have the wisdom to do that. But I didn’t. And as life has it, shortly after that, I was fired.Collection: Jobs
I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the characer of an organisation.Collection: Believe