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

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

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.

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

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.

Lollipop had been her nickname for me as long as I could remember. I asked her how she came up with the name, and she told me sometimes kids are sweet, and sometimes they just need a good lickin'.

We're going to be OK because of the American people. They have more grit, determination and courage than you can imagine.

the truly covetous have never enough!

Definitely directing is the thing I like the most because this is where everything you know can be used. It's the most personal process ever. It's the most demanding one, but again, rewarding.

What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.

Religion is by no means a proper subject of conversation in a mixed company.

I'm convinced that ideas and behaviors and new products move through a population very much like a disease does.

You just have to make sure the model you're working on does not undersell your product.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.