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 FELDMANThe biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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No one ever died with too much money.
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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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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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I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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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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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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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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You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
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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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I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
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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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Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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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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I’m just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.
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I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
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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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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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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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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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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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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 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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