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I Wanted To Be An Industrial Designer, So I Went To Business School For That, And I Then Went On To Marketing At Interpublic Group Of Companies, Which Was One Of The First Organizations To Actually Think About Brand Marketing. I Worked On Coca Cola's Account, And Then I Was Recruited By Pepsi, And I Ended Up Being Pepsi's First Mba. I Was Called The High Wire Act Because I Was In My 20s And I Was Given Jobs Of Increasing Responsibility That I Was Totally Unqualified For.

We Expect Teachers To Handle Teenage Pregnancy, Substance Abuse, And The Failings Of The Family. Then We Expect Them To Educate Our Children.

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

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.

There Are Just Moments When All The Stars Are Aligned For Breakthrough Products.