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
jobs philosophy microsoft
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.
clouds missing care
Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.
jobs ipods perfect
The iPod is a perfect example of Steve [Jobs]' methodology of starting with the user and looking at the entire end-to-end system.
marketing theater staging
Marketing is really theater. It's like staging a performance.
memories firsts share
The Japanese always started with the market share of components first. So one would dominate, let's say, sensors, and someone else would dominate memory, and someone else hard drives and things of that sort.
jobs decisions-you-make important
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.
moon men today
If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today
real thinking apples
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.
innovation hierarchy individual
Innovation has never come through bureaucracy and hierarchy. It's always come from individuals.
jobs design methodology
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.
courage worry people
If you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.
new-york jobs mistake
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.
jobs people automation
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.
thinking
You can't be No. 1 unless you think like No. 1. You have to appear like No. 1.