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.

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.

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

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.

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

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