The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
BEN FELDMANBesides, 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.
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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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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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.
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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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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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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’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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You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
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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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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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No one ever died with too much money.
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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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Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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