So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.

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.

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.

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.

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

I believe the night I’ve never methides one elusive star I needto divide me between darkness and light

I doubted myself, and that made me doubt you. But you weren’t the problem. You were never the problem. I should have trusted you, but I didn’t, because I couldn’t trust myself.

Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird.

All nights end, and all storms clear. The only storms that last are those within your own soul.

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.

I have a notion that there's a Star Wars out there waiting to be made, and I'm not sure it's the next Star Wars. I think it's something else that will be fresh and original.

In L.A., nobody is talking about football. No television stations. You see it nowhere.

I also know that while I am black I am a human being, and therefore I have the right to go into any public place. White people didn't know that.Every time I tried to go into a place they stopped me