Ben Feldman Quotes
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.
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?
Doing something costs something. Doing nothing costs something. And, quite often, doing nothing costs a lot more!
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.
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.
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.
The basic purpose of life insurance is to create cash…nothing more or nothing less. Everything else confuses and complicates.
You haven’t done anything wrong. You just haven’t done anything, and that’s what’s wrong.
I do not sell life insurance. I sell money. I sell dollars for pennies apiece. My dollars cost 3 cents per dollar per year.
Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.
Your biggest asset is a positive attitude. That more than anything else determines your earnings.
The key to a sale in an interview, and the key to an interview is a disturbing question.
The biggest asset you have is your earning capacity, and that depends entirely on your attitude.
Your value depends on what you make of yourself. Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.
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!
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?
Read! 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.
Do you know anyone who has a lease on life? It isn’t a question of if; it’s a question of when.
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.
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.
I'm just the least funny person in a room full of funny people, which is basically every single day of work for me.
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.
Unfortunately, my career is increasingly leading me into rooms where everybody is funny.
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.