I’m just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.
BEN FELDMANIf you look at the history of advertising, most of them were Jews, so it was only a matter of time before ‘Mad Men’ explored that area of advertising.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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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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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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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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If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.
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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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I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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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.
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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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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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Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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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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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.
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There was a time where I chose my jobs based on what jobs were available to me, so I would choose 100 percent of them.
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Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It’s that fundamental!
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Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
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Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
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When you walk out, the money walks in
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You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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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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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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I know plenty of actors smarter than me with better taste than me who love horror movies and love sci-fi and it just doesn’t make sense to me.
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No one ever died with too much money.
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Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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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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