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 FELDMANI’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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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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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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I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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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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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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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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Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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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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Work hard. Think big. Listen well.
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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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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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When you walk out, the money walks in
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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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The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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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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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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Youll have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in… unless you let me take your problems with me.
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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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