Quotes & Sayings About Selling Life Insurance

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. — Annette Bening

I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point. — Shiv Khera

I've always been a quitter. I quit the Boy Scouts, the glee club, the marching band. Gave up my paper route, turned my back on the church, stuffed the basketball team. I dropped out of college, sidestepped the army with a 4-F on the grounds of mental instability, went back to school, made a go of it, entered a Ph.D. program in nineteenth-century British literature, sat in the front row, took notes assiduously, bought a pair of horn-rims, and quit on the eve of my comprehensive exams. I got married, separated, divorced. Quit smoking, quit jogging, quit eating red meat. I quit jobs: digging graves, pumping gas, selling insurance, showing pornographic films in an art theater in Boston. When I was nineteen I made frantic love to a pinch-faced, sack-bosomed girl I'd known from high school. She got pregnant. I quit town. — T.C. Boyle

Investing in the market without knowing what stage it is in is like selling life insurance to 20 year olds and 80 year olds at the same premium. — Victor Sperandeo

Forget it," I said. "Opie could be bloodthirsty, rabid, radioactive, and selling life insurance and he'd still be preferable to listening to the two of you. — John Zakour

If you had any brains, you'd be in a real career, like selling life insurance. — Orson Scott Card

To this day, I've never understood why McDonald's sell a range of salads. To me, that's like a funeral director selling life insurance or a dentist selling sweets. — Andy Leeks