I don’t really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.
BEN STEINI don’t believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
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The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
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The American system is the most successful in the world because it harmonizes best with the aims and longings of human personality while allowing the best protection to other personalities.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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When we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
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It’s a lot better to hope than not to.
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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It’s got some gigantic missing pieces.
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I have talent at playing myself. I don’t have a very broad range, but at playing myself I am a wizard. It’s more than fun; it’s the best job on Earth.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’
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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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