Scott D. Cook famous quotes

04-14-2025

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Technology #Firsts #Revolution
A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Social Media #Consumers #Brands
Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn't have to be burdened with picking individual stocks.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Investing #Mutual Fund #Easy
So I think instead of focusing on the competition, focus on the customer.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Educational #Thinking #Focus
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Retirement #Poverty #Generations
Before 1980, it was basically illegal for U.S. banks to invent new products.
-- Scott D. Cook

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

#Self #Government #People
Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Educational #Focus #Stuff
Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Technology #Trends #Revolution
Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Technology #Fundamentals #Force
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Revolution #Financial #Facets
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. Cook

#Dream #Revolution #Facts
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. Cook

#Thinking #Ideas #Revolution
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 D. Cook

#Home #Simple #People
Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Simple #Years #Decision
Well, today people have to be self-reliant if they want a secure retirement income.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Retirement #Self #People
The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Retirement #People #Needs
Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Retirement #Believe #People
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
-- Scott D. Cook

#Years #Gold #Coins

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