John Sculley Quotes

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John Sculley

Profession : Businessman

Birth : April 6, 1939

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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Timing in life is everything.

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The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.

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The Mac defined 'personal technology', and the iPhone defines 'intimate technology' as a convergence of communications, content and location.

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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.

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

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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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If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today.

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Implementers aren't considered bozos anymore.

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Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex.

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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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There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.

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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.

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Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution.

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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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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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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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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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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.

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