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!
BEN FELDMANGoals 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.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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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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Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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You know, a man’s life is the most precious thing in the world, isn’t it? So isn’t it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?
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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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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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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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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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Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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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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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 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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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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No one ever died with too much money.
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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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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 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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When you walk out, the money walks in
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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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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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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’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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