Death on the Installment Plan

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Insurance is death on the installment plan. – Philip Slater




Insurance is the guarantee that, no matter how many necessities a person has to forgo all through life, death was something to which he could look forward. – Fred Allen



Progress means taking risks, for you can’t steal home and keep your foot on third base. – Herbert V. Prochnow



Being grown up means we can have our own way – at our expense. – Hal Rogers



There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction. – John F. Kennedy



We can be absolutely certain only about things we do not understand. – Eric Hoffer

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Why is Money Flat?

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A conference is a gathering of important people who, singly, can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. – Fred Allen

A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. – Elbert Hubbard

Outside of traffic, there is nothing that has held this country back as much as committees. – Will Rogers.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortune of others. – Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld

Deflagrable, adj. – Pertaining to a sudden bursting into flame, sudden vaporization, or fast burning. – Mrs. Byrne’s Dictionary

Anything that happens enough times to irritate you will happen at least once more. – Tom Parkins

Money is flat and meant to be piled up. – Scottish proverb

How to Make a Compact with the Devil

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Advertising agency: eighty-five percent confusion and fifteen percent commission. – Fred Allen

In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. – Sir William Osler

To sell something, tell a woman it’s a bargain; tell a man it’s deductable. – Earl Wilson

When a man sells eleven ounces for twelve, he makes a compact with the devil, and sells himself for the value of an ounce. – Henry Ward Beecher

I am the world’s worst salesman; therefore I must make it easy for people to buy. – Frank W. Woolsworth

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. – H.L. Mencken

Whenever two people meet, there are really six people present. There is each man as he sees himself, each man as the other person see him, and each man as he really is. – William James

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Organizitis is like a Spastic Colon

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On ships they’re called barnacles; in radio they attach themselves to desks and are called vice presidents. – Fred Allen

Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I’m the only person standing between Nixon and the White House. – John F. Kennedy

The surest way for an executive to kill himself is to refuse to learn how, and when, and to whom to delegate work. – James Cash Penney

Everyone’s responsibility is no one’s responsibility. – anonymous

Far too much reorganization goes on all the time. Organizitis is like a spastic colon. – Peter Drucker

Every successful business requires three men – a dreamer, a business-man, and a son-of-a-bitch. – Peter McArthur
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