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 FELDMANI’m just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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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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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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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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When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you’re basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare where I feel like I need to play into it, then I find myself acting like the character in real life.
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You’ve got a problem. Part of what you own isn’t yours. It belongs to Uncle Sam. May I show you how much belongs to Uncle Sam?
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I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
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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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When you walk out, the money walks in
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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.
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If 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.
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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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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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Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.
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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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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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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 I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
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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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Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
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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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And I’m overcompensated for that. So it’s insane to not use that pedestal to try and at least help someone or something that’s in need.
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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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Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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Read! Study never stops because publications never stop coming in. It’s read and study. And think about what you’re studying. Take it apart and put it together. Ask ‘why?’ And know the answers.
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