John Sculley
John Sculley
John Sculley IIIis an American businessman, entrepreneur and investor in high-tech startups. Sculley was vice-presidentand president of Pepsi-Cola, until he became chief executive officer of Apple Inc. on April 8, 1983, a position he held until leaving in 1993. In May 1987, Sculley was named Silicon Valley's top-paid executive, with an annual salary of US$2.2 million...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth6 April 1939
CountryUnited States of America
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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.
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Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex.
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My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it.
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It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that.
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We expect teachers to handle teenage pregnancy, substance abuse, and the failings of the family. Then we expect them to educate our children.
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As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.
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If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today
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Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.
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The new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment
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Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.
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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.
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There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.
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Great marketing cannot sell a pedestrian product very well.
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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.