Scott David Cook (born 1952) is an American billionaire businessman who co-founded Intuit. Cook is also a director of eBay and Procter & Gamble. (wikipedia)
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.
The current institutionally provided retirement plans will not cover people's needs upon retirement.
People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.
Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.
Even some of the greatest technology-led revolutions, or allegedly technology-led, really were only made possible because of trends already present.
Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.
Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.
The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.
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.
Changing to the Internet is the hardest thing - you can't believe people's resistance.
