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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.

Ben Feldman

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’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
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Jobs Lucky Pretty
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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Girl Men Phones
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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Encouragement Goal Running
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
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
Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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Big Hard Thinking Work
If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.
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Problem Procedures
You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
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Anything Done Wrong
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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Assets Attitude Earning
Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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Believe People Person Sales
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 don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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Experiment Fact Fantasy Fiction Knowledge Science
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
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.
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Careers 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
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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Looks Mad Men
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
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
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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Assets Attitude Earning
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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Actor Love Taste
The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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Disturbing Interview Keys
When you walk out, the money walks in
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Desire Money Walks
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 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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Blood Camera Fake
If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
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Sell

I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.

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