Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
BEN FELDMANWhen 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.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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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’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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No one ever died with too much money.
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Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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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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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 don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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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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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 never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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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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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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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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Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
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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 haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
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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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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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Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
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If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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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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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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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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