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.

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.

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.

She was poetry written in pen, scribbled and scrawled again and again.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

We at BMW do not build cars as consumer objects, just to drive from A to B. We build mobile works of art.

It seems to me that the price of eternal vigilance is liberty.

I told my girlfriend that a praying mantis female eats its mate after copulation. She didn't take the hint.

Scholasticism, a concept which does not bear criticism, is a theological concept specifically designed to sustain faith in the immortality of the soul.

All I know is that I'm proud to be Filipino.

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

If you eat good, you feel good. I would encourage every body else to do the same.

When I cook him dinner and I burn it black, he better say hmmm, I like it like that.