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 STEINThe successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They’re getting shot at and they don’t have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
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As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative.
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The ordinary American – as far as I can tell – knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961.
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I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
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I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don’t know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
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Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
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Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
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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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Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
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