Steve Jobs was not an engineer: He was a brilliant individual with this ability to see around corners, to see things that other people couldn't see. I've learned over the years in the Apple that there are some really talented people who can take the same evidence, the same facts, and look at them and see them in a way that interprets those facts entirely different than most people do.
John SculleyThe new leaders face new tests such as how to lead in this idea-intensive, interdependent network environment
John SculleyApple no longer builds any products. When I was there, people used to call Apple "a vertically integrated advertising agency," which was not a compliment.
John SculleyIf you spend too much time worrying about how other people perceive you, you'll never break the rules.
John SculleyThe characteristics that I look for when I'm looking for really good entrepreneurs to lead companies are you have to have an inquiring mind, you have to say there must be a better way to do things, and now with technology at a point where everything is possible, how do we turn the possible into the probable? And it all starts with a passion to do something really well, to solve a problem in a way that's never been solved before, and to have just an incredible work ethic, to be persistent.
John Sculley