I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
BEN FELDMANRead! 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.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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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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Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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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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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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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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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 meet people and a lot of times, instead of saying, “Are you from the East Coast?” people just go, “you’re from the East Coast, right?”, having no reason to have known that. I don’t know what that is. Maybe it’s just that I’m Jewish.
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Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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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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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people. Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny. I’m the least funny person in a room full of funny people.
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Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
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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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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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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 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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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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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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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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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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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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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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Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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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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