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

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.

I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the h

At the heart of memory, is the stillness of time.

Non-profit does not mean not for revenue.

I have watched lives change. I have seen women gain confidence.

I've been homeless. I've worked at 7-Eleven.

I wanted to be in an anti-gravity machine so bad! Maybe a different time, a different place.

The proper thing to do is to admit that hell is real and to allow our feelings of discomfort to motivate us to action.

Austin is such a free and creative place, but I can't enjoy it as much because everyone I love is back in L.A.

Life experiences become acting experiences, which in turn become life experiences.

I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.