Quotes of the Day

Buying an annuity means you give the insurance company a lump sum—say, $500,000 at age 60—and in return you get a guaranteed monthly payout (for example, $2,400 each month) for the rest of your life. Annuities are essentially the opposite of life insurance. Thinking of annuities as insurance makes them a lot more sensible than thinking of them as investments—because as investments they are not good at all. But that’s not their goal—their goal is to insure you against the risk of outliving your money. [2021] - Bill Perkins

A whopping 95 percent of the first impression that you make on a customer is determined by your clothes. [2004] - Brian Tracy

The deposit is generally 5% to 10% of the purchase price. If there were conditions in the offer, and these conditions were not met, then the purchaser would be entitled to receive the full amount of the deposit back. If you are purchasing through a private sale and no realtor is involved, never pay the funds directly to the vendor; pay them to your own lawyer in trust. If a realtor is involved, the funds can be paid to the realtors' trust account or your own lawyer's trust account as the situation dictates. [2006] - Douglas Gray

There are two key ingredients for creating rapport in a handshake. First, make sure that yours and the other person's palms are in the vertical position so that no one is dominant or submissive. Second, apply the same pressure you receive. [2004] - Allan Pease

Rapamycin has been demonstrated to do something that no other drug has ever done before: extend maximum lifespan in a mammal. Even though rapamycin is already approved for use in humans for multiple indications, there are formidable obstacles to launching a clinical trail to look at its possible impact on human aging-mainly, its potential side effects in healthy people, most notably the risk of immunosuppression. [2023] - Peter Attia