Ben Feldman (insurance salesman)

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Ben Feldman (1912–1993) was one of the most prolific salespeople in world history.

He sold $1,800,000,000 of Insurance Policy for New York Life Insurance from 1942 to his death in 1993. To this date, he still holds the world record for the most products sold (by value) by a salesman in a career, a year ($100,000,000), and in a single day ($20,000,000). Near the end of his career, his annual commission totals were over $1,000,000 per year.

Born in New York, New York in 1912 as one of nine children to recent immigrants Issac and Bertha Dardick Ferdman, he began in sales when the family moved to Salineville, Ohio to open a wholesale poultry business.