John Sculley Quotes

I have a philosophy that has guided me throughout all of my scientific career, and that is, I think of myself as a fairly thoughtful person. I don't go into projects impetuously, and I try to select important problems.

Congress must not do something just for the sake of doing something. We must carefully and thoughtfully consider the implications of any action and whether that action will help or hinder our ultimate mission of protecting U.S. citizens from terror.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Success isn't something you achieve by accident, but rather by design.

I try to drive my office more as a start-up of ideas.

Just because you don't announce your plan doesn't mean you don't have one.

You make the right decision for the long run. You manage for the long run, and you continue to move to higher value. That's what I think my job is.

Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

I always take things step by step and match by match.

We don't look at what happens in our business in six-month periods.

Everything that Marvel does, it's a chess move. Nothing is by accident.

If you really know... what you want and how to get there, then everything else really falls into place.

Discretion--humble as it seems, it has often brought about successes in which talent failed and genius did not succeed. Discretion in the great affairs of the world does wonders, and safety depends frequently and is chiefly derived from it....

You want to win the wars you fight. That’s why you have to pick your wars carefully.

I am suspicious of career engineers, people that plan it out every step of the way.

Surrounding yourself with a great team that is really discerning and not pushing or rushing into a certain direction that doesn't seem like a progressive flow is really important.

Successful strategic vision lay in the fact that we visualized the retail business to be much bigger, ahead of what others thought it to be.

I'm usually very analytical when I'm prepping stuff: real into the head thing.

Giving up your core business in search of a phantom audience is not wise.

We had a much bigger vision than creating a dating site.

As far as Ola is concerned, we are focused and determined to build a business that can sustain and be impactful.

Being deliberate in decisionmaking isn't always flashy, but it does get results.

Business comes and goes and we make a strategic decision that could lead you to whole new place.

You can get so focused on a strategy and making it work that you lose sight of your larger mission.

Creativity is messy and inefficient. But corporate governance needs to be tight and organized.