Scott Cook Quotes

#1. Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.

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#2. The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.

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

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#4. Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

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

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

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

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#9. 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.

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#10. 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.

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#11. Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.

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

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#14. People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.

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

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#16. We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.

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#17. 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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#18. Modern society wanted to believe they were living in the information age, when, in fact, they were living in the misinformation age.

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

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