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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The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
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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.
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Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex.
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Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.
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No great marketing decisions have ever been made on qualitative data
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Innovation, I believe, is the only way that America will regain the initiative in a global dynamic economy.
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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.
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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.
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Of all the Internet companies we're involved with, this one is by far the most technologically ambitious,
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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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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.
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Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on.
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Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.