I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a ...hat and a gun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.... Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and Determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "Press On", has solved and will always solve the problems of the human race.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, wo...man's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, "until death doth part."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... business training in early life should not be regarded solely as insurance against destitution in the case of an emergency. Fo...r from business experience women can gain, too, knowledge of the world and of human beings, which should be of immeasurable value to their marriage careers. Self-discipline, co-operation, adaptability, efficiency, economic management,--if she learns these in her business life she is liable for many less heartbreaks and disappointments in her married life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological manifestations are generally considered to be ...organization, metabolism, growth, irritability, adaptation, and reproduction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always get back to the question, is it really necessary that men should consume so much of their bodily and mental energies in t...he machinery of civilised life? The world seems to me to do much of its toil for that which is not in any sense bread. Again, does not the latent feeling that much of their striving is to no purpose tend to infuse large quantities of sham into men's work?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim--for self-developm...ent, or the discovery of cosmic truths--when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »