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All Quotes by author - John Sculley
" 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. "
Selling
More
Market
" Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way. "
Things
Focused
Apple
" 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. "
High
Good
Price
" As a brand marketer, I'm a big believer in 'branding the customer experience,' not just selling the service. "
Brand
Service
Experience
" Everything at Apple can be best understood through the lens of designing. Whether it's designing the look and feel of the user experience, or the industrial design, or the system design, and even things like how the boards were laid out. "
Apple
Look
Experience
" 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. "
Way
Technology
Last
" Health care missed the PC and Internet revolutions, but it can't afford to miss the cloud and mobile revolution. "
Internet
Revolution
Miss
" Health innovation, enabled by digital technologies to build big consumer service brands, is an incredibly interesting, complex problem to work on. "
Work
Build
Health
" 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. "
Change The World
Step
World
" If we hadn't put a man on the moon, there wouldn't be a Silicon Valley today. "
Silicon Valley
Man
Moon
" 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. "
Learn
Mistakes
You
" I'm an optimist. You can't be an entrepreneur if you're not essentially an optimist, so I'm an optimist by nature. "
Entrepreneur
Nature
You
" Implementers aren't considered bozos anymore. "
Anymore
Considered
" 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. "
Train
Comfortable
Complex
" 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. "
People
Society
Automation
" 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. "
Smart
Think
Way
" 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. "
Experience
Apple
Think
" 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. "
Experience
Choice
Think
" 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. "
Health
Care
Think
" It's suddenly practical to do very high quality video wirelessly over mobile devices, and we're just in the early days of that. "
Just
Quality
Days
" My guess is that Apple won't just pass Microsoft in market capitalization, but will go way beyond it. "
Beyond
Market
Way
" 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. "
Us
Always
Apple
" Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience. "
Goal
Experience
Great
" Over the years, I have developed a pretty good Rolodex. "
Pretty Good
Years
Good
" People who take risks are the people you'll lose against. "
Take
Risks
People
" Ross Perot came and visited Apple several times and visited the Macintosh factory. Ross was a systems thinker. "
Factory
Thinker
Came
" 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. "
Apple
Building
Create
" The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. "
Become
Who
Possibilities
" The healthcare industry has never had a priority on user experience because there has been little competition. Prices have never been transparent. "
Healthcare
Experience
Competition
" 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. "
Create
First
Genius
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