I don’t think Wall Street people in general are smart. I think that’s one of the biggest myths in American lore. They’re tough, aggressive, greedy, quick thinking but I don’t think they’re particularly smart at all.
BEN STEINWe in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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.
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I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
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If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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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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And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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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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If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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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.
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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
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