Scott Cook

Starting his career at Procter & Gamble, Scott Cook soon began using the insights he was learning to develop an idea for his own company. With personal computers just coming out at the time, Scott thought there might be a market for basic software that would help people pay their bills. Scott Cook launched Intuit in 1984, which today offers software and online products to help individuals and small companies manage their finances including the extremely popular Quicken and Quickbooks packages.

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

“And if you're ahead of the other guy understanding the customer, and if you're bringing to market the stuff that the other companies just haven't figured out because you're ahead in understanding and delivering for the customer, then they're copying your old stuff.”

“At least if you buy a company's stock, like Coca Cola, you kind of know what the company makes.”

“I find too many companies in our industry have focused on the competition, particularly when it was Microsoft, to their deaths.”

“People don't place their trust in government or company pension plans; they have to be self-reliant.”