Scott D. Cook Quotes

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.

Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

QuickBooks - the very fact that we could even dream to make something in the business arena, and that it would then succeed - was a total revolution to me.

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

Subsequent to the original Quicken, the whole idea that we, as a consumer products company, could actually make business products, that was a whole revolution in our thinking.

For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome

Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.