Arthur Eddington Quotes

Life insurance is a commodity.

If there is anyone dependent on your income - parents, children, relatives - you need life insurance.

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

If you know your life chances are greatly reduced, should you be in a position to take out life insurance if that knowledge is not available to the insurers?

For insurance solvency, ongoing plan participation is vital.

Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.

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.

People don't expect to die tomorrow, but they do take out insurance, don't they?

Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you're covered and there's not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

My wife bought an extra life insurance policy on me.

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.

If a child, a spouse, a life partner, or a parent depends on you and your income, you need life insurance.

I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with the Prudential, but all I can say is: when I go, they go too.

Once your kids are grown and you know that you're completely healthy, consider canceling your life insurance policy.

Remember kids, I have life insurance.

The life insurance industry is filled with good people who believe in their work and their companies, but who may never have challenged the assumptions underlying their efforts.

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.

Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.

The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

The solid wealth of insurance companies and the success of those who organsie gambling are some indication of the profits to be derived from the efficient use of chance.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

I have learned that nothing is certain except for the need to have strong risk management, a lot of cash, the willingness to invest even when the future is unclear, and great people.