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

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

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

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

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.

Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now.

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

Dig for feedback on yourself. You need to have the courage to ask for feedback. You need to learn how you can learn how to grow. It is important that you are going to be a lifelong learner.

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

Food is not your best friend or enemy.

Dear Internet: You are very good at spreading rumors. Truth is more valuable and much harder to come by.

It's sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don't believe they belong in politics.

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of the writing of the first draft, I don't go out. I'm just locked away, writing. It's a time of meditation, of going into the story.

I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me.

The perpetuation of slavery, the exile and extermination of American Indians, and the passage of Jim Crow laws weren't carried out at the bidding of a few malefactors of great wealth.

Science will explain how but not why. It talks about what is, not what ought to be. Science is descriptive, not prescriptive; it can tell us about causes but it cannot tell us about purposes. Indeed, science disavows purposes.

I find it so amazing when people tell me that electronic music has no soul. You can't blame the computer. If there's no soul in the music, it's because nobody put it there.

Its plot is loose and tortuous and will take some time for its stars to emerge.

Boarding school is a wicked thing.

Football players have some bodies! Oh my goodness!

You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.

Everybody knows what the moon is, everybody knows what this decade is, and everybody can tell a live astronaut who returned from the moon from one who didn't

Nobody is worth losing yourself for.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

We get older, and we forget that we have to carve a little time out to feel good in your body, in your head, and in your spirit.

Minimalism is the intentional promotion of the things we most value and the removal of anything that distracts us from it.

I challenge all of you to fight for this country.

There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is produced in the world.

Do I have a small movie in me? Yeah, probably, when I'm 60. But I'm not Hal Ashby, I'm not Roman Polanski. I'm true to myself. Whether you like it or not.

Gay is not a choice.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.