Insurance Sales Quotes

I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.

My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.

Show business is my life. When I was a kid I sold insurance, but nobody laughed.

As the wonderful agony begins for 1964-65, I sometimes wonder why I do it. I've got an insurance business going on the side, and it is starting to grow nicely. Selling insurance fulfills me, in a way, like basketball. But basketball keeps calling me back. I suppose I'll play until I can't keep up with the kids any longer.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Paul Ryan looks like the car rental salesman who bullies you into getting full coverage.

I wanted to become an actor so I didn't have to put on a suit and sell insurance.

I started selling insurance in 1979 and continued doing that until 1985 when I opened my own insurance firm.

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

When the War ended in 1945, I started selling vacuum cleaners door to door. Then I sold insurance door to door. I even tried selling cars.

The determination of life insurance salesmen to succeed has made life pretty soft for widows.

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

I've watched people who were better actors than me disappear, and they're selling insurance now.

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.

I look, absolutely, like I'm going to sell you insurance.

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.

Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.

My father had four jobs every summer. He taught driver's education. He sold World Book Encyclopedias. He sold life insurance. He worked the tobacco market. From the time I was really, really small, I went with him. Obviously, I didn't get paid.

When Americans are asked to rank professions in terms of honesty and ethics, insurance agents routinely end up near the bottom of the list - somewhere between politicians and car salesmen. Generally, insurers are seen as clever hucksters who prey on insecurity and ignorance to sell people what they don't need at prices they shouldn't have to pay.

The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.