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What I teach our people is th...

What I teach our people is that, as a leader, you have four key roles apart from people management. First is to champion the grand vision. Two, install systems and a culture to run experiments. The third thing is to savour surprises. The fourth thing is that even a leader's ideas need to be subjected to tests.

Scott Cook 31 quotes

Even some of the greatest tec...

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

Scott Cook 31 quotes

As you grow as a company, you...

As you grow as a company, you get layers and hierarchy that, in theory, should make your decisions a lot better. They get reviewed, and thoughtful people look at decision.

Scott Cook 31 quotes

When you love someone deeply,...

When you love someone deeply, you give strength, and when you are loved deeply, you gain courage.

Scott Cook 31 quotes

Dig for feedback on yourself....

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.

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Mutual funds were created to ...

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

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For every one of our failures,...

For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome

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We're still in the first minut...

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

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Thirty to 40 years ago, most f...

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

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Well, today people have to be ...

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

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The current institutionally pr...

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

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Today more people believe in U...

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

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A whole generation of American...

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

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A brand is no longer what we t...

A brand is no longer what we tell the consumer it is - it is what consumers tell each other it is.

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QuickBooks - the very fact tha...

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.

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Subsequent to the original Qui...

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.

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Even the once simple home mort...

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.

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Be dramatically willing to foc...

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

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So I think instead of focusing...

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

Scott Cook 31 quotes

Well, today people have to be ...

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

Scott Cook 31 quotes

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