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.
BEN FELDMANWork hard. Think big. Listen well.
More Ben Feldman Quotes
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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 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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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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And I’m overcompensated for that. So it’s insane to not use that pedestal to try and at least help someone or something that’s in need.
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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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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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No one ever died with too much money.
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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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Most people buy not because they believe, but because the sales person believes.
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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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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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When you walk out, the money walks in
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If you’ve got a problem make it a procedure and it won’t be a problem anymore.
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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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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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When 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.
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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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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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The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
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I think I’m the funniest guy in a room full of unfunny people.
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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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Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
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I’ve been pretty lucky, I like my jobs.
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Don’t sell life insurance. Sell what life insurance can do.
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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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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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