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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.

Ben Feldman

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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East People Reason
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
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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Answer Thinking Together
Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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Big Hard Thinking Work
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
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 never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
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Country Forever Live
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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New York Play Simple
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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Know Lease
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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Cost Doing Nothing
Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
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Permanent Problem Term
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
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
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. 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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Careers People Thinking
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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New York Play Simple
I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
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Jobs Lucky Pretty
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
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
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
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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Cash Men Problem
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
I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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Guy People Thinking
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
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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Reading Real Writing
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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Cost Dollar Years

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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