Scott D. Cook quotes
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“We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.”
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“A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.”
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“Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.”
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“So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.”
-- Scott D. CookSource : Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.
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“A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.”
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“Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.”
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“People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.”
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“Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.”
-- Scott D. CookSource : Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.
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“Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.”
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“Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.”
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“The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.”
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“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 D. CookSource : Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.
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“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 D. CookSource : Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.
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“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.”
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“Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.”
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“Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.”
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“The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.”
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“Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.”
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“Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.”
-- Scott D. Cook
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