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. — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
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. — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against "no fault" insurance. No fault, no lawsuits.… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
There were no jobs created in America from 1945, when the war ended, through 2003. How could there be? Taxes were too high. Preposterously… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
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… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
“I was terribly intolerant, but they were terribly threatening to me. They were everything I was afraid of becoming.” — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
Life insurance in America has traditionally been dominated by mutual insurers. Twelve of the fifteen largest life insurers are mutuals. — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
