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.

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.

There's no beauty without difference and diversity. Love unconditionally.

As so many commitments demand your timeOr your shut-eye important be, Your attraction to me must in some way lack, Such a pity to spend time on thee.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children.

In college, I had a big fixation with Southern Gothic literature. Flannery O'Connor, I read every word she's ever written.

To change masters is not to be free.

I think in most jobs, you get better as you get older. You gain experience, you gain knowledge.

I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.