Andrew Tobias Quotes

• La gente no necesita encontrar razones para justificar que no da. Lo que necesitan es inspiración para dar. Y quienes no lo hacen, pero podrían permitírselo, se están perdiendo uno de los mayores lujos de la riqueza.

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  Inspiration, Luxury, People

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• There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

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  Ideas, Two, Complicated

  "The invisible bankers". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• But successful investors tend to be not too self-destructive. They tend to be patient, they tend not to follow the crowd, and they tend not to be too guilty about winning.

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  Successful, Winning, Self

  "'I Have to Take a Call from My Russian Broker': Andrew Tobias Talks About His 'Vast Fortune'". Interview with Deborah Stead, www.nytimes.com. November 2, 1997.

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• No es de extrañar que los abogados, que controlan el sistema jurídico, hayan luchado tanto, y con gran éxito, contra el seguro "sin culpa". Sin culpa no hay pleitos. Sin demandas, no hay comida.

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  Lunch, Legal System, Faults

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line "You cannot be turned down for this coverage!" are actually saying, "For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody - and make them pay through the nose."

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  Cost, Noses, Lines

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• It's very nice to be able to be who you are.

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  Nice, Be Who You Are, Able

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• You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

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  Risk, Cards, Credit

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• Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.

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  Pareja, Años, Gente

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• 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.

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  Believe, People, Effort

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• In short: Readily available low-cost life insurance would be a threat to the industry, and whatever threatens the life insurance industry threatens America.

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  America, Would Be, Cost

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew P. Tobias, 1982.

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• I think a lot of people would rather have more control over their life than less.

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  Pensamiento, Personas

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• Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.

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  Men, Years, Numbers

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously so under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan (who left office with a 28 percent rate on long-term capital gains) and Bush the Elder.

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  Jobs, War, America

  "Doonesbury on Job Creation" by Andrew Tobias, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2012.

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• The first American insurance company was the Friendly Society for the Mutual Insurance of Houses Against Fire, founded in Charles Town in South Carolina, in 1735.

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  Fire, House, Friendly

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew P. Tobias, 1982.

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• Nadie quiere la reforma de la financiación de las campañas más que yo. Me ahorraría una fortuna.

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  Reform, Campaigns, Want

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• What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.

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  Common Sense, Giving, Kind

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage (including, when it was first proposed, Social Security), no matter how efficient it may be. Automatic coverage eliminates sales commissions and profit.

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  May, Matter, Firsts

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.

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  Buying, Want, Sells

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time for people to report back on what it's done for them.

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  Book, People, Done

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• The industry cannot long offer unneeded or overpriced insurance if people will not buy it.

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  Long, People, Offers

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew P. Tobias, 1982.

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

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  Running, Thumbs, Pitching

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759 (still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged).

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  Years, America, Corporations

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• Summers are the best. And I figured summer was my best time for meeting someone, too, because in the summer people are looking for someone to snuggle up with for the winter. And because in the summer I could take off my shirt.

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  Summer, Winter, People

  Andrew Tobias (2010). “The Best Little Boy in the World Grows Up”, p.66, Ballantine Books

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• Life insurance is a commodity.

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  Materias primas

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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• Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence.

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  Hay Fever, Average, Suffering

  "The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know". Book by Andrew Tobias, 1982.

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