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The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.

Ben Stein

There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
BEN STEIN

Goal Pyramids Steps
I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
BEN STEIN

Wall Writing Years
I’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
BEN STEIN

Class College Teaching
Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
BEN STEIN

Asking Children Stranger
I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don’t think it explains individual species evolution at all well.
BEN STEIN

Consequences Explain Implication Little Species
If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
BEN STEIN

Making Money Recessions
The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.
BEN STEIN

First People Running
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.
BEN STEIN

Home Night Sleep
I 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.
BEN STEIN

Believe School Successful
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.
BEN STEIN

Average Far Know Numbershabit Years
I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
BEN STEIN

Like List Making Sound
Science leads you to killing people.
BEN STEIN

Killing People Religion
If we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
BEN STEIN

Devil Dust God Mean Specks
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
BEN STEIN

Cadillacs Soul
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.
BEN STEIN

Beautiful Men Years
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.
BEN STEIN

Missing Pieces Principles

The education system should teach us about money; it’s an incredibly big subject. I run into people all the time that don’t have the first clue of what they should do about money.

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