Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.

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.

Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services 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.

Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

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.

Jesus Christ is Lord of all, and all things have been put under his feet. There are no exceptions. (p. 70)

Life is difficult, easy, and wonderful. As you think, it is as such.

God does not showers blessings, he showers opportunities.

I realized that I had the choice. I could give this moment a meaning, or I could choose to ignore it. It just depended on the kind of story I wanted to tell myself.

It's become almost a cliche at this point that movies in the general sense are the place you go for superheroes and explosions and TV is where you go for actual storytelling.

No better words than "thank you" have yet been discovered to express the sincere gratitude of one's heart; when the two words are sincerely spoken.

I just love the world of photography.

Everything you think, say, and do needs to become intentional and aligned with your purpose, your values, and your goals.

The wonder is that Jesus purposed to make your heart and mine just as sweet and lovely and pure and holy as His own.

I think I summed up my attitude to philosophy when I said: philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic composition.