There are many insightful business insurance quotes and sayings by successful entrepreneurs, writers and about any businessman who made it big. The quotes may well be from the past printed materials, but they still carry today’s practices by commercial business insurance companies including multi-nationals or home-based business insurance.
The following quotes and sayings deal with business insurance.
Insurance General Accepted Definitions
The label as 'general and basic' definitions of insurance is used in a sense that these quotations are found in about any business and finance books.
“Insurance is the contractual relationship of indemnity (that is, compensation for loss) that exists between the insurer and the insured.”
“The practice, system or business of insuring property, life, the person, against loss or harm arising in specified contingencies in consideration of a payment proportionate to the risk involved, sometimes synonymously used with the term, assurance.”
“Insurance is the amount for which something or someone is insured.”
Ambrose Bierce Quotations on Insurance
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842-1913) was an American writer, fabulist and satirist. He is best known for his satirical lexicon, The Devil’s Dictionary.
“Insurance is an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.” ~ Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary
Peter Corris Quotation on Insurance Premiums
Peter Corris (1942- ) is an Australian historian and novelist of historical and crime fiction.
“How do you insure yourself against insurance premiums?” ~Peter Corris, The Dying Trade, 1980.
Charles Dickens Quotations on Life and Business Insurance
Charles Dickens (1812-1870) was arguably the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era. He remains to be popular, with his classic books consistently among the top in English literature. After all, who hasn’t heard of A Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, and many more.
“I understand your object. You want to save your funds, and escape from your liabilities; these are old tricks of trade [in insurance] with you office-gentlemen.” ~Charles Dickens, Hunted Down, 1860.
“A Life Assurance Office is at all times exposed to be practised upon by themost crafty and cruel of the human race.” ~Charles Dickens, Hunted Down, 1860
Mark Twain Quotation on Cheap Business Insurance
Samuel Clemens (1835-1910) was commonly known with his pen name as Mark Twain, an American author famous for such classic novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
“This is a poor old ship, and ought to be insured and sunk.” ~Mark Twain, Following the Equator, 1897.
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Sources:
Bloomsbury Dictionary of Quotations. London: Bloomsbury, 1991.
McGovern, Una, Ed. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, New Edition. London: Chambers Harrap Publishers, 2002.
Simon, James et al. A Dictionary of Business Quotations, Glasgow: HarperCollins, 1990.
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