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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.

Ben Feldman

I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
BEN FELDMAN

Experiment Fact Fantasy Fiction Knowledge Science
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
Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
BEN FELDMAN

Great Inspirational Motivational Sales
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.
BEN FELDMAN

East People Reason
Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
BEN FELDMAN

Big Hard Thinking Work
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
Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
BEN FELDMAN

Permanent Problem Term
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
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
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Reading Real Writing
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
BEN FELDMAN

Assets Attitude Earning
Your value depends on what you make of yourself. Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
BEN FELDMAN

Depends People Values
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Help Leas Need Someone Something
Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
BEN FELDMAN

Careers Leading Me Rooms
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.
BEN FELDMAN

Blood Camera Fake
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.
BEN FELDMAN

New York Play Simple

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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