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 FELDMANThe key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
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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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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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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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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people. Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny. I’m the least funny person in a room full of funny people.
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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 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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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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Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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I don’t like sci-fi/fantasy.
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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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When you walk out, the money walks in
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You are already broke and don’t even know it.
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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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I never thought I was gonna live in LA. I thought I was gonna live in New York forever.
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If I don’t buy it, I can’t sell it.
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