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Quotes About Life insurance

In the summer of 1954, after several years in Austin, Minnesota, our family moved across the state to the small, rural town of Worthington, where my dad became regional manager for a life insurance company. To me, at age 7, Worthington seemed a perfectly splendid spot on the earth.
~ Tim O'Brien
I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
~ Ben Feldman
Anticipated receipt of a fixed amount from life insurance proceeds represents a virtual fixed-income asset, suggesting a diminished role for bonds in an investor's portfolio.
~ David F. Swensen
I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days. I watched Hillary Clinton on the news the other day, and I got choked up by Hillary Clinton.
~ Ike Barinholtz
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
~ Douglass North
Justice is the insurance which we have on our lives and property. Obedience is the premium which we pay for it.
~ William Penn
The shotgun and the Bible have never been separated by the Caucasian … It is not the Christianity that makes the Negro forgiving, it is two hundred and fifty years of forced coercion, cowardice and damaging instructions to play into the favor of the white man. Better get a gun for Christmas. Insure your lives Negroes, and then you are in line of equality.
~ David Zucchino
I was 34 years old, and I knew that I wanted a possibility of having a family one day, but I wasn't dating anyone obviously because I'm living at the mansion. But I just wanted to make sure I had the possibility, so I froze my eggs back then and that was my insurance policy for later on in life.
~ Bridget Marquardt
We can all instinctively understand the idea of life insurance; most of us will feel an instinctive repugnance at the thought of the viatical industry, or 'dead peasants insurance.' As market thinking penetrated the life insurance industry, a moral line was crossed, and the application of market ideas was taken too far.
~ John Lanchester
If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.
~ Ben Feldman
Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families.
~ James Surowiecki
Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium.
~ Victor Sperandeo
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
~ Ralph Nader
Many kids come out of college, they have a credit card and a diploma. They don't know how to buy a house or a car or health insurance or life insurance. They do not know basic microeconomics.
~ Jesse Jackson
My early work and publications centered around expanding on the analysis of life insurance in my dissertation and its relationship to investment banking.
~ Douglass North
Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
~ Kin Hubbard
It's very easy for trusted companies to mislead naive customers, and life insurance companies are trusted.
~ Daniel Kahneman
There is nothing I have to reflect on that gives me more satisfaction than the fact that my life is insured for the benefit of my Dear Wife and children.
~ Ezra Cornell
The chief beneficiary of life insurance policies for young, single people is the life insurance agent.
~ Wes Smith
Life insurance can be numbingly complicated. Clients often turn off their brains and surrender their judgment to the very agent or planner who brought on their coma in the first place.
~ Jane Bryant Quinn
We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life? I have spare tire on my car. I also have life insurance. I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for.
~ Peter DeGraaf
Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company.
~ Arthur Eddington
Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.
~ Andrew Tobias
A policy of life insurance is the cheapest and safest mode of making a certain provision for one's family.
~ Benjamin Franklin