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

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.

My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.

I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision.

At war with savages and idiots. To be a Frenchman abroad is to be miserable; to be an American abroad is to make others miserable.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there.

I would tell people to enjoy the present moment and the journey rather than the outcome.

When you get seen in one particular way, it can be paralyzing. You start to believe it's all you can do.

He who believes in freedom of the will has never loved and never hated.

The Labour Party is and always has been an instinctive part of my life

If, therefore, there is any grace in the water, it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.