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23 Life Insurance Quotes – Witty and Meaningful

Admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 09:24:57 +0000

Throughout our website Soccerwidow we talk about statistics, especially in connection with sports results, odds calculation, and betting, and we can assure you that nothing within this field carries a full one hundred percent probability.

But when it comes to the subject of life, absolute certainty does exist. The undesirable question is when, and not if…

The following selection of life insurance quotes is not a commercial collection. It is simply a broad perspective on the topic of life insurance.

Enjoy and don’t forget to share if you like this collection!

Perhaps the best cure
for the fear of death
is to reflect
that life
has a beginning
as well as an end.
William Hazlitt

(1778 – 1830, English writer)

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While nothing
is more uncertain
than a single life,
nothing is more certain
than the average duration
of a thousand lives.
Elizur Wright

(1804 – 1885, American mathematician,
“father of life insurance” for his pioneering work on actuarial tables)

Statistics have shown
that mortality increases perceptibly
in the military
during wartime.
Alphonse Allais

(1854 – 1905, French writer and humourist)

Fun is like life insurance;
the older you get,
the more it costs.
Frank McKinney Hubbard,
better known by his pen name “Kin” Hubbard

(1868 – 1930, American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist)

I detest life-insurance agents:
they always argue
that I shall someday die,
which is not so.
Stephen Butler Leacock

(1869 – 1944, English-born Canadian teacher,
political scientist, writer, and humorist)

Asking Europe to disarm
is like asking a man in Chicago
to give up his life insurance.
Will Rogers

(1879 – 1935, American entertainer)

The determination of
life insurance salesmen to succeed
has made life
pretty soft for widows.
William A. Feather

(1889 – 1981, American publisher and author)

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Top 30 Poker Quotes by Great Players & Winners

Admin — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 13:30:30 +0000

One big criticism of poker these days is that the characters have gone out of the game. And where you get big poker players, you get fun and interesting quotes.

It’s true that many of the best quotes in poker have come from its larger-than-life figures, but the game has such wide-spreading roots that people from all walks of life have come out with a gem or two.

As Dan Holley from Casino.org once said, “May the controversial and loud-mouthed forever brighten up the game we love”. So, whether it’s Tony G launching a tirade at other players, Phil Hellmuth launching a tirade against himself, or Will Kassouf just…. well, launching,…

Here are 30 of the best quotes from the poker world…

Life is not always
a matter of holding good cards,
but sometimes,
playing a poor hand well.
Jack London

(1876 – 1916, American novelist, journalist, and social activist)

Image: Lukas Gojda (Shutterstock)

If you play bridge badly
you make your partner suffer.
But if you play poker badly
you make everybody happy.
Joe Laurie Jr.

(1891 – 1954, American vaudeville monologist
who later performed on radio and on Broadway)

Trust everyone,
but always cut the cards.
Lester Ben “Benny” Binion

(1904 – 1989, American gambling icon and mob boss)

Poker exemplifies
the worst aspects of capitalism
that have made our country so great.
Walther Matthau

(1920 – 2000, American actor and comedian)

One of the interesting things about poker is
that once you let your ego in, you’re done for.
Al Alvarez

(*1929, English poet, novelist, essayist and critic)

When we play, we must realize,
before anything else,
that we are out to make money.
David Sklansky

(*1947, American professional poker player and author)

Poker takes a minute to learn
but a lifetime to master.
Mike Sexton

(*1947, American poker pro and commentator)

Poker may be a branch of psychological warfare,
an art form or indeed a way of life –
but it is also merely a game,
in which money is simply
the means of keeping score.
Anthony Holden

(*1947, English writer, broadcaster and critic)

To be a poker champion,
you must have a strong bladder.
Jack McClelland

(*1951, Poker tournament director and poker player)

Show me a good loser,
and I’ll show you a loser.
Stuart Errol Ungar

(1953 – 1998, professional poker player, widely regarded
to have been the greatest Texas hold ’em player of all time)

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Conversion Rate Optimization – Strategic Advisory Quotes

Admin — Sat, 13 May 2017 09:22:14 +0000

What is Conversion Rate Optimization?

Conversion rate optimization (CRO) is the systematic process of increasing the percentage of website visitors who take a desired action — be that filling out a form, becoming customers, or otherwise.

The CRO process involves understanding how users move through your site, what actions they take, and what’s stopping them from completing your goals.

Source: Moz.com

In simple terms, conversion rate optimization is finding out why visitors are not converting, and then fixing it. That’s all.

Unfortunately, this isn’t so easy. If it were, there would be countless numbers of website millionaires.

Image: Alexey Rozhanovsky (Shutterstock)

Some of the following quotes may be perceived as controversial when considered against the common understanding of conversion rate optimization.

However, the authors are all experts and professionals who run their own hugely successful websites, and are therefore probably in the best position to judge.

Enjoy & learn!

You can’t please everyone,
so proudly exclude people.
Derek Sivers

Anything You Want, page 3

Don’t find customers
for your products;
find products
for your customers.
Seth Godin

First, organize 1,000

In order to optimize
for conversion rates,
you have to know where,
what to optimize,
and who to optimize for.
This information
is the cornerstone
to successful CRO strategies.
If you don’t gather data,
then you’re left
making changes
based on gut feelings alone.
Moz.com

Trying to increase sales
simply by driving more traffic
to a website with a poor
customer conversion rate
is like trying to keep
a leaky bucket full
by adding more water
instead of plugging the holes.
Bryan Eisenberg

bryaneisenberg.com

If you double
your conversion rates,
then you cut your cost
per acquisition in half.
Quicksprout.com

The Definitive Guide to Conversion Optimization,
Chapter 1

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Make Money With Your Website – Strategic Advisory Quotes

Admin — Wed, 03 May 2017 08:24:40 +0000

There are mainly two types of websites that make money.

(1) A business that is marketed online
(2) A “magazine” or “media” business

Whatever your business, you are either running (1), (2), or both. If the answer is ‘neither’, then it is very unlikely that you will make reasonable money with your website.

Ries and Trout said, that companies fail because “9 out of 10 products are introduced to fill a void in the company’s product line, not to fill a void in the market.“. These very wise words mean that 9 out of 10 entrepreneurs who try to make money with their websites are probably failing because their products don’t fill a void in the market.

Are you one of the website owners who struggle to make the ends meet?

If yes, then try hard and learn to see things from your customers’ perspective and aim to fill a void in the market. Your chances of making decent money will then increase.

To help you become successful we have collected wise quotes and sayings from people at the top, and there is always ‘room at the top’, as they say.

These people are ‘famous’ in the business world and/or website development: SEO professionals; experienced bloggers; consultants – all giving valuable pieces of advice on the topic of how to make money with a website…

Have you ever heard of the K.I.S.S. strategy?
= Keep It Simple Stupid!
If it’s foolproof, it usually works!

Enjoy our quotes collections!

Innovation is not about
saying yes to everything.
It’s about saying NO to all
but the most crucial features.
Steve Jobs

(1955 – 2011, American entrepreneur, businessman,
inventor, and industrial designer)

Image: Tan Kian Khoon (Shutterstock)

We watch our competitors,
learn from them,
see what they are doing for customers
and copy those things
as much as we can.
Jeff Bezos

(*1964, American engineer, technology and retail entrepreneur,
investor and philanthropist who is best known as
the founder, chairman, and chief executive officer of Amazon.com)

Complexity is not be admired.
It is to be avoided.
Jack Trout,
The Power of Simplicity

(owner of Trout & Partners, a consulting firm;
he is one of the founders and pioneers of
positioning theory and also marketing warfare theory)

Simplification is one
of the most difficult things to do.
Sir Jonathan Paul “Jony” Ive

(*1967, British industrial designer
who is currently the Chief Design Officer of Apple Inc)

People will tell you exactly
what they want.
In comments, links,
social media landscape in general.
Listen. Extrapolate.
Do something with that information.
Brian Clark

copyblogger.com

The Internet makes money for you
when you build something
that is real
and when it matters to people!
Darren Rowse

problogger.net

Chase the vision,
not the money,
the money will end up following you.
Tony Hsieh

(*1973, American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist;
he is the CEO of the online shoe and clothing shop Zappos)

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Content is King! Strategic Advisory SEO Quotes

Admin — Tue, 02 May 2017 08:44:52 +0000

Content is King! Who hasn’t heard this saying before?

The expression is commonly attributed to an article written by Bill Gates back in 1996, but if you search on Google Books you can find two books by historian A. Wyatt Tilby who used these words in 1914. And if you look further then you will find that “content is king” probably originated during the heydays of the British monarchy. It is a very old saying!

Content is king because it pays a living to the people who produce something (content). However, if you continue thinking, the fortune actually lies with the distributors (such as Google & Co). Therefore, there is an extended saying these days, attributed to Sumner Murray Redstone: Content is King, But Distribution Is Queen!

The peasants of British North America lived in poverty despite content being king. They were the farm workers, struggling to make a living, whilst the content queens – the traders – became rich.

Today, having now moved away from tangible products to the intangible digital product, this still holds true: “Content is King”, but those who take the content and redistribute it earn the most money! Bill Gates anticipated this back in 1996. He pointed out that it will be difficult to earn money online on content for years to come, at least for content creators.

Nevertheless, to be successful with a website, it is crucial to regularly create new, interesting and informative articles and to share valuable free content to attract new users. There is simply too much competition. It’s a hard life!

Enjoy our collection of quotes. We hope that they will inspire you to produce not just unique but intriguing and captivating content because this is extremely important to any website’s success. Nevertheless, bear distribution in mind too.

Give them quality.
That’s the best kind of advertising.
Milton Hershey

(1857 – 1945, American confectioner and philanthropist
who founded the Hershey Chocolate Company)

Image: Vadim Georgiev (Shutterstock)

Make it simple.
Make it memorable.
Make it inviting to look at.
Make it fun to read.
Leo Burnett

(1891 – 1971, American advertising executive)

Be specific enough
to be believable
and universal enough
to be relevant.
Ann Handley

(Chief content officer of MarketingProfs,
the author of Everybody Writes:
Your Go-To Guide to Ridiculously Good Content)

Above all,
you want to create something
you’re proud of.
Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson

(July 1950, English business magnate, investor and philanthropist)

Human nature has a tendency
to admire complexity
but reward simplicity.
Ben Huh – addressing the SMX East conference in October 2009

(South Korean internet entrepreneur and the CEO of The Cheezburger Network,
which receives 375 million views a month across its 50 sites)

Stop writing about everything.
So many brands create content
and try to cover everything,
instead of focusing on the core niche
that they can position themselves
as an expert around.
No one cares about your special recipe…
Find your niche,
and then go even more niche.
Joe Pulizzi

(Entrepreneur, speaker, author, and podcaster;
he’s the founder of multiple startups,
including the Content Marketing Institute (CMI))

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Business Quotes – Motivational Words to Thrive Your Business

Admin — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 20:16:10 +0000

Welcome to our collection of motivational and at the same time thought-provoking business quotes.

We have picked 50 wise words and quotes by ancient philosophers, famous entrepreneurs, business founders, and investors.

Whilst collecting and deciding which quotes to include, we had in mind those people who have novel ideas but do not act. Many people fear the risk or are discouraged because they think surely other people must have had the same idea. But opportunity, though unknown, may be just behind the next corner.

The quotes are presented in chronological order by the birth date of the author and provides a great picture how perception developed over time.

Enjoy the quotes, inspire yourself to stay motivated, focused, and remember, never give up and be positive!

Big results
require big ambitions.
Heraclitus

(535 – 475 BC, Greek philosopher and metaphysician)

A good decision
is based on knowledge,
and not on numbers.
Plato

(428 – 347 BC, Greek philosopher,
mathematician and writer)

Collage of Shutterstock images; Foreground: Mathieu Viennet, Background: Alexander Kalina

Fortune favours
the audacious.
Desiderius Erasmus

(1466 – 1536, Dutch humanist,
teacher and theologian)

Who likes
not his business,
his business
likes not him.
William Hazlitt

(1778 – 1830, English writer,
social commentator and philosopher)

It is not the strongest
of the species that survive,
nor the most intelligent,
but the one
most responsive to change.
Charles Robert Darwin

(1809 – 1882, English naturalist)

The man
with a new idea
is a crank,
until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain

(1835 – 1910, American author and humorist)

Twenty years from now
you will be more
disappointed by the things
that you didn’t do
than by the ones
you did do.
Mark Twain

(1835 – 1910, American author and humorist)

The first one
gets the oyster
the second
gets the shell.
Andrew Carnegie

(1835 – 1919, Scottish-American industrialist)

A friendship
founded on business
is better
than a business
founded on friendship.
John D. Rockefeller

(1839 – 1937, American industrialist and philanthropist)

The man
who does not work
for the love of work
but only for money
is not likely
to neither make money
nor find much fun in life.
Charles Michael Schwab

(1862 – 1939, American steel magnate)

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Top 50 Money Jokes – Short Quick One-Liners

Admin — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 12:13:47 +0000

This is a compilation of funny, quick, short one liner jokes and sayings about money.

Not all of them have a deeper meaning. This collection is simply intended to bring a smile to your face or brighten up your day…

The one liners are grouped in
Money Jokes taken from Life
Money Jokes & Puns
Quick Financial One Liner Jokes
Question Answer Animal Money Jokes
Money One Liners related to Family and Friends
Silly Question Answer Jokes
Slightly Sexist Money Jokes – although vaguely amusing
Joking about the Perils of Life

Money Jokes taken from Life

Imagine, I have love letters
in six different languages!
So what?
I pay child support
in eight different currencies.

Somehow they figured out how to monetize their brand.
Image: Cartoonresource (Shutterstock)

I can handle money!
I know
how to spend money,
I know
how to get into debt and
I know
how to lose money.

Borrow money from pessimists,
they don’t expect it back.

Living on earth
may be expensive,
but it includes
an annual free trip
around the sun.

Nothing is foolproof
to a talented fool.

An oil sheik
says in a gallery:
I really admire Picasso.
There is nobody
who was able to sell oil
so expensive.

Money Jokes & Puns

Why is money called dough?
Because we all knead it.

Why did the hippie
put his money
in the refrigerator?
He liked cold cash.

Why isn’t a dime
worth as much today
as it used to be?
Because the dimes (times)
have changed.

Why was the skunk
arrested for counterfeiting?
Because he gave out
bad scents (cents).

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Best 25 Expressive and Noteworthy Stock Market Quotes

Admin — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 07:50:10 +0000

The question of “how to invest in stocks” interests many people. Which is why we set out to collect remarkable quotes on the topic. A true surprise, however, was that many of the stock market quotations are akin to our collection of gambling quotes… Scary!

Many people seem to forget that behind every stock there is a business.

Therefore, please, should you ever get involved in stocks, always remember: You are an investor and not a gambler! Don’t allow emotions to carry you away!

Our collection of stock market quotes is sorted chronologically by birth date of the originator. Enjoy the feast of quotes about the stock market game!

Anybody who plays the stock market
not as an insider
is like a man
buying cows in the moonlight.
Daniel Drew

(1797 – 1879, American businessman,
and steamship and railroad developer)

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Gambling with cards
or dice or stock
is all one thing.
It’s getting money
without giving an equivalent for it.
Henry Ward Beecher

(1813 – 1887, American Congregationalist clergyman,
social reformer, and speaker)

October:
This is one of the peculiarly
dangerous months to speculate in stocks.
The others are
July, January, September,
April, November, May,
March, June, December,
August and February.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens,
better known by his pen name Mark Twain

(1835 – 1910, American author and humorist)

The man who begins
to speculate in stocks
with the intention
of making a fortune
usually goes broke,
whereas the man
who trades with a view
of getting good interest on his money
sometimes gets rich.
Charles Henry Dow

(1851 – 1902, American journalist
who co-founded Dow Jones)

One of the funny things
about the stock market is
that every time
one person buys,
another sells,
and both think
they are astute.
William A. Feather

(1889 – 1981, American publisher and author)

If you are shopping
for common stocks,
choose them the way
you would buy groceries,
not the way
you would buy perfume.
Benjamin Graham

(1894 – 1976, British-born American professional investor)

Stocks are bought
on expectations,
not facts.
Gerald Loeb

(1899 – 1974, founding partner of E.F. Hutton & Co.,
Wall Street trader and brokerage firm)

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The stock market
is filled with individuals
who know the price of everything,
but the value of nothing.
Philip Arthur Fisher

(1907 – 2004, American stock investor)

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50 Vital Investment Quotes by Investors & Business Magnates

Admin — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 21:00:09 +0000

Welcome to our collection of the most meaningful proverbs and intelligent sayings about investment, business and the creation of wealth.

Take a look at what true experts have said over centuries on the topic of investing. The quotes date back to Leonardo da Vinci, whilst others are from today’s authorities like Warren Buffett and Roman Abramovich.

Though markets change, good investing advice is timeless. Learn from those who succeeded – business tycoons, investors and economists from around the world – most of them millionaires and billionaires, offering solid financial advice.

The quotes are ordered chronologically by the birth year of the author. Enjoy!

He who wishes
to be rich
in a day
will be hanged
in a year.
Leonardo da Vinci

(1452 – 1519, Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect,
engineer, inventor, anatomist, botanist, and writer)

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All that glitters
is not gold.
William Shakespeare

(1564 – 1616, English poet, playwright and actor)

An investment in knowledge
pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin

(1706 – 1790, political theorist, scientist, and inventor)

The wise man
puts all his eggs
in one basket
and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie

(1835 – 1919, Scottish American industrialist
who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry)

Fortune and misfortune
are two buckets
in the same well.
German Proverb

Opportunity is missed
by most people
because it is dressed
in overalls
and looks
like work.
Thomas Edison

(1847 – 1931, American inventor and businessman)

When everything seems
to be going against you,
remember
that the airplane
takes off against the wind,
not with it.
Henry Ford

(1863 – 1947, American industrialist)

Markets can remain
irrational longer
than you
can remain solvent.
John Maynard Keynes

(1883 – 1946, British economist and author)

The market does not
beat them.
They beat themselves,
because though
they have brains
they cannot sit tight.
Jesse Lauriston Livermore,
also known “Great Bear of Wall Street”

(1877 – 1940, American stock trader)

Buy
when everyone else
is selling
and hold
when everyone else
is buying.
This is not merely
a catchy slogan.
It is the very essence
of successful investments.
Jean Paul Getty

(1892 – 1976, Anglo-American industrialist)

Never let a poor man
advise you
on your investments.
Spanish Proverb

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25 Most Notable and Wise Quotes about Mathematics

Admin — Thu, 02 Mar 2017 16:44:23 +0000

There is great intrinsic value in mathematics: Nothing is as straightforward and honest.

If you make a mistake at the outset then everything else you build on this false foundation will be wrong as well. Nevertheless, there is no mistake which cannot be rectified. This is the beauty of maths!

This compilation contains 25 of the best quotes related to mathematics. They are very notable sayings, several of them even analogies for life itself.

The quotes are sorted chronologically by birth date of the originator. Enjoy and share with your friends!

The mathematical sciences
particularly exhibit
order, symmetry, and limitation;
and these are the greatest forms
of the beautiful.
Aristotle

(384 – 322 BC, Greek philosopher)

Mathematics is the door
and key to the sciences.
Roger Bacon

(c. 1214 – 1294, English philosopher and Franciscan friar)

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Nature is written
in mathematical language.
Galileo Galilei

(1564 – 1642, Italian physicist, mathematician, and astronomer)

Mathematicians are [like]
a sort of Frenchmen;
if you talk to them,
they translate it
into their own language,
and then it is immediately
something quite different.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(1749 – 1832, German novelist, dramatist,
poet, humanist, and philosopher)

Mathematics is
the queen of sciences
and arithmetic is
the queen of mathematics.
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauß

(1777 – 1855, German mathematician and scientist)

The study of mathematics,
like the Nile,
begins in minuteness
but ends in magnificence.
Charles Caleb Colton

(1780 – 1832, English cleric, writer and collector)

Mathematics is the science of
what is clear by itself.
Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi

(1804 – 1851, German mathematician)

It is easier
to square the circle
than to get round
a mathematician.
Augustus De Morgan

(1806 – 1871, British mathematician and logician)

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