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Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!

Ben Feldman

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
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
You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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Already Broke Know
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
I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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Experiment Fact Fantasy Fiction Knowledge Science
Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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Big Hard Thinking Work
I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
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Jobs Lucky Pretty
Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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Believe People Person Sales
You know, a man’s life is the most precious thing in the world, isn’t it? So isn’t it odd that a man will insure everything but his life?
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Life Men World
Term insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
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Permanent Problem Term
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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Doe Doors People
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
Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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Careers Leading Me Rooms
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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Funny People People Rooms
If you’re starting to lose your faith in the general intelligence of the American populous, there’s nothing like them mistaking pop culture for Van Gogh as a sign that people still read their history books and care about art.
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Art Book People
I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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Guy People Thinking
If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.
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Problem Procedures
Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
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Men might Needs
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
No one ever died with too much money.
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Died Too Much
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
When you walk out, the money walks in
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Desire Money Walks
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
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
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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Home Makeup Morning
If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
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Sell
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

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