Olsztyn, Poland

Banking and insurance

Bankowość i ubezpieczenia

Language: Polish Studies in Polish
Subject area: economy and administration
University website: www.osw.edu.pl
Insurance
Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss. It is a form of risk management, primarily used to hedge against the risk of a contingent or uncertain loss.
Insurance
Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history.
Dwight D. Eisenhower in: Joe Soss, et al., Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in and Age of Inequality, Russell Sage Foundation, 8 November 2007, p. 149.
Banking
There is no group of people on the planet more stupid than bankers. They should be called bonkers. Look at the famous banks that are suddenly losing billions, because they handed out loans like lunatics.
Michael Winner, English film director and producer. From his interview in The Daily Mail (UK) newspaper, 17th June 2008.
Insurance
I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.
Stephen Leacock, Literary Lapses (1910), Insurance up to Date.
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