The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people’s needs upon retirement. – Scott Cook
A whole generation of Americans will retire in poverty instead of prosperity, because they simply are not preparing for retirement now. – Scott Cook
Mutual funds were created to make investing easy, so consumers wouldn’t have to be burdened with picking individual stocks. – Scott Cook
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins. – Scott Cook
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 Cook
Technology is similarly just a catalyst at times for fundamental forces already present. – Scott Cook
Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement. – Scott Cook
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 Cook
Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present. – Scott Cook
Be dramatically willing to focus on the customer at all costs, even at the cost of obsoleting your own stuff. – Scott Cook
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 Cook
People don’t place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant. – Scott Cook