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 FELDMANDoing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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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 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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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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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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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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The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
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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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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’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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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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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.
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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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Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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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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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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