The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
BEN FELDMANLife insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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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’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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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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I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
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Your value depends on what you make of yourself. Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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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 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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Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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I’m just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.
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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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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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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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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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Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
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I don’t like horror, which is ridiculous because I’ve been in three horror movies, but when I see those things, I see camera tricks and fake blood and actors screaming and I don’t know understand why other actors don’t see that.
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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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Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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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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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 think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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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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Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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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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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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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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