Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place. Science leads you to killing people.
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We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That’s a terrifying situation. That’s contrary to the principles of science.
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I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
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I’d say the main way people get into terrible financial trouble is just to spend too much money relative to their income, and that is an endemic problem in the United States of America, and that’s the kind of thing that should be taught about in schools.
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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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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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The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
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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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My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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It is so great to sleep in safe, glorious, beautiful America. I just cannot get over it.
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