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

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

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.

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

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

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.