I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Life insurance agents remind you of death to sell policies, but the speaker jokingly denies this inevitability.
- In plain terms
- Agents talk about death to sell you things.
- What can you take from it?
- Salespeople use fear to close deals.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What fears do others use to sell you?
Another view
Denying death is not practically sustainable.
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