Marketing Is Really Theater. It's Like Staging

I Was Recruited By Pepsi And Put Out In Pittsburgh, And I Worked In The Bottling Lines, And Then I Was Sent On To Phoenix, Arizona, Where I Also Drove Trucks And I Put Up Signs, Pepsi Signage, And I Was Then Sent On To Las Vegas For A Month Of Training, And Then I Finally Ended Up In Milwaukee. So I Got A Really Hands - On Introduction To The Soft-drink Industry. I Was So Appreciative Of The Fact That I Was Able To Not Only Learn A Business Through What I Learned At Business School, But I Was Able To Learn It With Hands-on Learning. I'm A Huge Believer In Hands-on Learning.

You Can't Be No. 1 Unless You Think Like No. 1. You Have To Appear Like No. 1.

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.

Innovation Has Never Come Through Bureaucracy And Hierarchy. It's Always Come From Individuals.

The 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.