Scott D. Cook
A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.Collection: Business
So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.Collection: Educational
Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.Collection: Investing
Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.Collection: Educational
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.Collection: Retirement
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.Collection: Home
Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.Collection: Retirement
The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.Collection: Retirement
Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.Collection: Retirement
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.Collection: Years
Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.Collection: Illegal
Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.Collection: Technology
Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.Collection: Technology
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.Collection: 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.Collection: Dream
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.Collection: Thinking