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Goals aren’t enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn’t much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

Ben Feldman

I’m a lot happier in people’s living rooms weekly than I think I would be if I was really, really relying on a movie career to keep me fulfilled and excited.
BEN FELDMAN

Careers People Thinking
I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
BEN FELDMAN

Experiment Fact Fantasy Fiction Knowledge Science
I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
BEN FELDMAN

Jobs Lucky Pretty
Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.
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Actor Country Doubt Intimidated Walk
Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
BEN FELDMAN

Permanent Problem Term
Every man has problems that only life insurance can solve. In the young man’s case, the problem is to create cash; for the older man, to conserve it.
BEN FELDMAN

Cash Men Problem
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
BEN FELDMAN

Assets Attitude Earning
You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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Already Broke Know
Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
BEN FELDMAN

Big Hard Thinking Work
If you’re starting to lose your faith in the general intelligence of the American populous, there’s nothing like them mistaking pop culture for Van Gogh as a sign that people still read their history books and care about art.
BEN FELDMAN

Art Book People
I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
BEN FELDMAN

Country Forever Live
I meet people and a lot of times, instead of saying, “Are you from the East Coast?” people just go, “you’re from the East Coast, right?”, having no reason to have known that. I don’t know what that is. Maybe it’s just that I’m Jewish.
BEN FELDMAN

East People Reason
I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people. Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny. I’m the least funny person in a room full of funny people.
BEN FELDMAN

Careers People Thinking
Besides, switchboard girls and secretaries have become very good. They’ve learned to take you apart. ‘Who? Why? What for? What company?’ You don’t always get by. I seldom call on the phone. I’d rather go.
BEN FELDMAN

Apart Company Seldom Switchboard
If people understood what life insurance does, we wouldn’t need salesmen to sell it. People would come knocking on the door. But they don’t understand.
BEN FELDMAN

Doe Doors People
I rarely use the telephone because he may not want to see me. I have a better chance of seeing the man I want to see if I do go.
BEN FELDMAN

Girl Men Phones

Goals aren’t enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn’t much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

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Goals aren’t enough. You need goals plus deadlines: goals big enough to get excited about and deadline to make you run. One isn’t much good without the other, but together they can be tremendous.

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