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.

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.

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.

Disappointment comes from ExpectationExpectation comes from intimacyIntimacy comes from common interestAnd common interest comes from friendshipSo to nurture friendship, abandon expectation

You know who you are you just have to believe it.

Even The Smallest Candle Burns Brighter In The Dark.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the same extended family.

I was born with scoliosis. I have a double curvature of the spine, and it's forced me to use a wheelchair because the disease has really taken hold. It really saddens me that I can't ride.

Can't living with the bill means it won't become law.

Look beyond the individual to the cause of his misery.

I smoke herb, but what's the harm it that?

So all that is said of the wise man by Stoic or Oriental or modern essayist, describes to each reader his own idea, describes his unattained but attainable self.