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

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.

Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time is now.

We are products of their weaknesses or strengths.

I begin by imagining The impossibleAnd end by accomplishingThe impossible.

I found my personal style in black humor and mixing funny things with very touching ones - like trying to force people to cry and smile almost at the same moment.

I didn’t get into this business for other people to know my name.

I went to 13 schools in 12 years. We moved all over the place. Music was the only thing that I could get behind... I wasn't that good at socializing. I'm still not.

My mum is about five foot with her hair done. Without it she's about four foot 10.

Find someone to love . . . and, oh, someone to love you.

The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.