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 FELDMANI 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.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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When you walk out, the money walks in
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Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in… unless you let me take your problems with me.
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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.
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You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
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When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It’s sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple.
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The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
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The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
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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.
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Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
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I get up in the morning and I put on makeup and then I say somebody else’s words in someone else’s clothes, and then I go home and watch TV, have a glass of whisky and go to bed.
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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.
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