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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.

Ben Feldman

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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Earth Fundamental Happens
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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Looks Mad Men
Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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Assets Attitude Earning
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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Life Men World
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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Blood Camera Fake
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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Careers People Thinking
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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Actor Love Taste
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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Home Makeup Morning
Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
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Men might Needs
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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Cost Doing Nothing
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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Depends People Values
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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Apart Company Seldom Switchboard
You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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Already Broke Know
The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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Disturbing Interview Keys
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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Doe Doors People
No one ever died with too much money.
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Died Too Much
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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Assets Attitude Earning
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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May Problem Uncles
I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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Guy People Thinking
Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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Great Inspirational Motivational Sales
When you walk out, the money walks in
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Desire Money Walks
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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Actor Country Doubt Intimidated Walk
If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
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Sell
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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Available Jobs Percent
The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
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Cash Life Purpose
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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Funny People People Rooms
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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Let Me Problem Walks

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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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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