John Sculley Quotes
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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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The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent.
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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.
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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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Is there anyone out there who is the next Steve Jobs? I think Jeff Bezos is pretty close. He is very smart. He is extremely creative. He has completely reinvented the way in which commerce is done online.
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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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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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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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I think that Apple has revolutionized every other consumer industry; why not television? The complexity of the experience of using the television gets more and more complicated. So it seems exactly the sort of problem that if anyone is going to change the experience of what the first principles are, it is going to be Apple.
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There are just moments when all the stars are aligned for breakthrough products.
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The launch of iPhone is very possibly bigger than the launch of the first Apple II or the first Mac. Steve Jobs's genius is his ability to use technology to create products that define fundamental cultural shifts.
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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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As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service.
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Apple and Samsung are selling in such high volumes, and they're vertically integrated more and more, that it's very, very hard for anyone to compete against Apple and Samsung in the high-volume part of the smartphone or tablet market.
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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.
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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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Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.
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Stay the course and keep building an integrated Apple ecosystem of iPhone + iPod + iMac + iTunes + App Store + Apple TV. No one has yet demonstrated they understand how to create an 'experience-based ecosystem' as well as Apple.
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Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex.
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The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.
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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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Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.
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Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker.
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We see healthcare shifting from a procedure reimbursement, where in this country doctors are reimbursed for how many procedures they conduct, to a world where people will be reimbursed for the outcomes - did the patient actually get better, and what was the total cost of the cycle of care.