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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
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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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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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When you walk out, the money walks in
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I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
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Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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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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If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
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Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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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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Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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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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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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Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
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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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If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.
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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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Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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No one ever died with too much money.
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