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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.

Ben Feldman

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.
BEN FELDMAN

Careers People Thinking
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 FELDMAN

Apart Company Seldom Switchboard
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Cash Men Problem
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

Looks Mad Men
You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
BEN FELDMAN

Anything Done Wrong
Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.
BEN FELDMAN

Know Lease
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Encouragement Goal Running
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
No one ever died with too much money.
BEN FELDMAN

Died Too Much
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Actor Country Doubt Intimidated Walk
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
BEN FELDMAN

Assets Attitude Earning
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Careers People Thinking
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Let Me Problem Walks
If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
BEN FELDMAN

Sell
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Answer Thinking Together
Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
BEN FELDMAN

Big Hard Thinking Work

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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