The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
BEN FELDMANYour biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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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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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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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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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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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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Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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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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If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell 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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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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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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The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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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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Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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You are already broke and don’t even know 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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Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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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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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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Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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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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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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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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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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