The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
BEN FELDMANThe biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
BEN FELDMANI do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
BEN FELDMANWhen 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 FELDMANYou 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?
BEN FELDMANNo one ever died with too much money.
BEN FELDMANTerm insurance is temporary, but your problem is permanent.
BEN FELDMANYoull have the same problems when I walk out, as you had when I walked in… unless you let me take your problems with me.
BEN FELDMANWhen 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 FELDMANIf 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.
BEN FELDMANI never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
BEN FELDMANI 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.
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.
BEN FELDMANYou haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
BEN FELDMANRead! Study never stops because publications never stop coming in. It’s read and study. And think about what you’re studying. Take it apart and put it together. Ask ‘why?’ And know the answers.
BEN FELDMANGoals 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 FELDMANYour value depends on what you make of yourself. Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
BEN FELDMAN