If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn't need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don't understand.

Goals aren't enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn't much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

You know, a man's life is the most precious thing in the world, isn't it? So isn't it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?

Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!

Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.

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.

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

You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.

I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.

Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.

Don't sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.

…We feel different things. We like different things. It’s like they say with books, no two people ever read the same book. It’s the same with music, yo.

Make sure when you reach for the stars, you keep both feet firmly planted on the ground.

There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody anywhere anytime.

Legal dialogue is awesome, but you can't ad lib. It's much more fun to be looser and say things like, 'Can I work in a Han Solo reference?' I'm a 'Star Wars' freak.

A man who has no excuse for a crime, is indeed defenceless!

If you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you.

Who can ever be alone for a moment in Italy? Every stone has a voice, every grain of dust seems instinct with spirit from the Past, every step recalls some line, some legend of long-neglected lore.

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.

Every film is exciting because I get new tools and cool new things to do.

If you start a chocolate company, you can't compete with Cadbury in the first ten years because they are a big company.