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