Scott Cook Quotes
"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."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Business, Idea, Company, Revolution, Thinking)
"Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income."
- Scott Cook
(Related: People, Income, Retirement, Self, Today, Want)
"We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Day, First, Revolution, Internet)
"Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement."
- Scott Cook
(Related: People, Care, Retirement, Security, Today, Will)
"Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Financial, Decisions, Years)
"The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement."
- Scott Cook
(Related: People, Needs, Retirement, Will)
"The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Money, Nature, Financial, Revolution)
"Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Technology, Present)
"Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Customer, Focus)
"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."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Business, Dream, Fact, Revolution, Succeed)
"A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Americans, Now, Poverty, Prosperity, Retirement, Will)
"Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks."
- Scott Cook
"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."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Home, People, Decision, Now)
"Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Technology, Present)
"Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Banks)
"So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Competition, Customer, Focus)
"People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant."
- Scott Cook
(Related: Government, Trust, People, Company, Self)