John Sculley Quotes

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• People who take risks are the people you'll lose against.

  John Sculley

  People, Risk, Loses

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• Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.

  John Sculley

  Innovation, Hierarchy, Individual

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• If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.

  John Sculley

  Courage, People, Worry

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• You can't be No. 1 unless you think like No. 1. You have to appear like No. 1.

  John Sculley

  Thinking

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• People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.

  John Sculley

  People, Creative, Productions

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• 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.

  John Sculley

  Organization, Ideas, People

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• No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data

  John Sculley

  Business, Data, Decision

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• Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

  John Sculley

  Business, Marketing, Action

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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.

  John Sculley

  Mistake, Enough Chances, Take A Chance

  John Sculley, John A. Byrne (1988). “Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple, a journey of adventure, ideas, and the future”, HarperCollins

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• Nothing will divide this nation more than ignorance, and nothing can bring us together better than an educated population.

  John Sculley

  Education, Ignorance, Knowledge

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• As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.

  John Sculley

  Selling, Branding, Bigs

  "Former Apple CEO John Sculley on the consumer revolution in healthcare". Interview with Halle Tecco, venturebeat.com. July 31, 2013.

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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.

  John Sculley

  Leadership, Teacher, Children

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• Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.

  John Sculley

  Marketing, Theater, Staging

  John Sculley, John A. Byrne (1989). “Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple-- a journey of adventure, ideas and the future”

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• 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.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, Decisions You Make, Important

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• 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.

  John Sculley

  Passion, Technology, Work Ethic

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If you repeat something long enough people believe it's what happened.

  John Sculley

  Believe, Long, People

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• 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.

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  Jobs, New York, Mistake

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• I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the characer of an organisation.

  John Sculley

  Believe, Helping, Crisis

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• The real challenge is not to get people to remember more, but to get them to understand better. We're just now beginning to be able to show what we can implement with technological tools. I think our interest at Apple is to be the provider of the instruments that will help educators and students create and entirely new kind of learning than what we have now.

  John Sculley

  Real, Thinking, Apples

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• Insatiable curiosity is infectious to everyone around you. We live in an era today where we can get the answers for everything. In my generation, going to school meant learning the answers. Today, education should be more about knowing what the right questions are. The answers come for free.

  John Sculley

  School, Curiosity, Today

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Microsoft's philosophy is to get it out there and fix it later. Steve [Jobs] would never do that. He doesn't get anything out there until it is perfected.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, Philosophy, Microsoft

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I remember going into Steve's [Jobs] house, and he had almost no furniture in it. He just had a picture of Einstein, whom he admired greatly, and he had a Tiffany lamp and a chair and a bed. He just didn't believe in having lots of things around, but he was incredibly careful in what he selected.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, Believe, House

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The boards had to be beautiful in Steve [Jobs]'s eyes when you looked at them, even though when he created the Macintosh he made it impossible for a consumer to get in the box, because he didn't want people tampering with anything.

  John Sculley

  Beautiful, Jobs, Eye

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Steve [Jobs'] brilliance is his ability to see something and then understand it and then figure out how to put it into the context of his design methodology - everything is design.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, Design, Methodology

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• Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.

  John Sculley

  Business, Believe, America

  John Sculley, John A. Byrne (1989). “Odyssey: Pepsi to Apple-- a journey of adventure, ideas and the future”

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