The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.

You've got a problem. Part of what you own isn't yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?

Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in... unless you let me take your problems with me.

Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.

I rarely use the telephone because he may not want to see me. I have a better chance of seeing the man I want to see if I do go. Besides, switchboard girls and secretaries have become very good. They've learned to take you apart. 'Who? Why? What for? What company?' You don't always get by. I seldom call on the phone. I'd rather go.

I meet people and a lot of times, instead of saying, "Are you from the East Coast?" people just go, "you're from the East Coast, right?", having no reason to have known that. I don't know what that is. Maybe it's just that I'm Jewish.

I'm just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.