Source: Management and technology, Problems of Progress Industry, 1958, p. 16
“Man's natural life span, 75 to 90 years or so, has not increased. It is the number of us who manage to attain it that has increased.”
Source: The Invisible Bankers, Everything The Insurance Industry Never Wanted You To Know (1982), Chapter 12, They Bet Your Life, p. 209.
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