Quotes by Scott Cook

• Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
• 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.
• Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.
• We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
• Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.
• Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
• The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.
• The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.
• Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.
• Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
• 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 whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
• Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.
• 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.
• Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.
• Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.
• So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.
• People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.