Scott D. Cook Quotes

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

  Scott D. Cook

  Business, Media, Marketing

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

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  Technology, Internet Revolution, Firsts

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

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  Educational, Thinking, Focus

  Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.

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

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  Investing, Mutual Fund, Easy

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

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  Educational, Focus, Cost

  Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.

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• For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome

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

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  Retirement, Self, People

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• 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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  Retirement, Marijuana, Poverty

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• 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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  Home, Simple, People

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• 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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  Thinking, Ideas, Revolution

  Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.

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

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  Technology, Fundamentals, Catalyst

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

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  Retirement, Believe, People

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

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  Retirement, People, Needs

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• 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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  Dream, Succeed, Revolution

  Interview with Michael J. Miller, www.pcmag.com. November 18, 2003.

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

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  Revolution, Financial, Changing Nature

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• 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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  Technology, Trends, Revolution

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

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  Simple, Years, Decision

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

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  Government, Pension Plans, Self

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

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  Illegal, New Products, Products

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

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  Years, Gold, Bars

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