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How long does it last?" Said the other customer, a man wearing a tan shirt with little straps that buttoned on top of the shoulders. He looked as if he were comparing all the pros and cons before shelling out $.99. You could see he thought he was pretty shrewd. "It lasts for as long as you live," the manager said slowly. There was a second of silence while we all thought about that. The man in the tan shirt drew his head back, tucking his chin into his neck. His mind was working like a house on fire "What about other people?" He asked. "The wife? The kids?" "They can use your membership as long as you're alive," the manager said, making the distinction clear. "Then what?" The man asked, louder. He was the type who said things like "you get what you pay for" and "there's one born every minute" and was considering every angle. He didn't want to get taken for a ride by his own death. "That's all," the manager said, waving his hands, palms down, like a football referee ruling an extra point no good. "Then they'd have to join for themselves or forfeit the privileges." "Well then, it makes sense," the man said, on top of the situation now, "for the youngest one to join. The one that's likely to live the longest." "I can't argue with that," said the manager. The man chewed his lip while he mentally reviewed his family. Who would go first. Who would survive the longest. He cast his eyes around to all the cassettes as if he'd see one that would answer his question. The woman had not gone away. She had brought along her signed agreement, the one that she paid $25 for. "What is this accident waiver clause?" She asked the manager. "Look," he said, now exhibiting his hands to show they were empty, nothing up his sleeve, "I live in the real world. I'm a small businessman, right? I have to protect my investment, don't I? What would happen if, and I'm not suggesting you'd do this, all right, but some people might, what would happen if you decided to watch one of my movies in the bathtub and a VCR you rented from me fell into the water?" The woman retreated a step. This thought had clearly not occurred to her before.


Michael Dorris


#investment #investors #rentals #shrewdness #small-business

My investments have been hurt.


Scott Adams


#hurt #investments

People who think about art as an investment are pathetic.


Walter Annenberg


#art #investment #pathetic #people #think

Real economic stimulus comes from real investment.


Tim Bishop


#economic #investment #real #stimulus

The amount of work and the amount of both physical and emotional investment it takes to get to the top.


Drew Bledsoe


#both #emotional #get #investment #physical

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.


Gro Harlem Brundtland


#billion #each #investment #lives #million

European investment in Texas alone exceeds all U.S. investment in China and Japan put together.


John Bruton


#china #european #exceeds #investment #japan

A rise in the level of saving can reduce aggregate activity temporarily but only a sustained high level of saving makes it possible to have the sustained high level of business investment that contributes to the long-run growth of output.


Martin Feldstein


#aggregate #business #contributes #growth #high

I've been in real estate for my whole life, I've been trying to sharpshoot the market with my investments, I'm never right. All you need to do is get near the bottom. That's good enough.


Barbara Corcoran


#bottom #enough #estate #get #good

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous.


Kent Conrad


#create #dakota #dollars #draw #enormous






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