Top 30 Andrew Tobias Quotes

#1. 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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#2. Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals.

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#3. There's no such thing as altruism.

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#4. 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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#5. I was a writer for 'New York' magazine. I had been to business school, but what did I know? Still, everybody from the receptionists on up to the editor would ask me what they should do with their money.

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#6. 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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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. There's no question young drivers have far more accidents than older ones-but is it our aim to keep them off the roads? Or to allow only rich young people (who can afford the premiums) to drive?

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#10. 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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#11. 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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#12. It's very nice to be able to be who you are.

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#13. People don't need to find reasons to justify their not giving. What they need to find is the inspiration to give. And those who don't, but could afford to, are missing out on one of wealth's greatest luxuries.

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

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#15. 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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#16. You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

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#17. Now listen. You can't fool all the people all the time
but I want you to try.

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#18. 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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#19. Hay fever suffers tend to be above average in intelligence, ...

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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. Life insurance is a commodity.

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

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#24. No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.

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#25. Nobody wants campaign finance reform more than me. It would save me a fortune.

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#26. 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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#27. Having no national system of catastrophic health insurance, we have, through the courts, managed to patch together pieces of a not very satisfactory one.

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

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

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#30. 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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