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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

So, who in the media is without sin among us? I am in the media and I am a major league sinner. I don’t know anyone except my wife who isn’t a big time sinner.
BEN STEIN

League Media Wife
A corporation’s responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
BEN STEIN

Corporations Pension Plans Responsibility
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
BEN STEIN

People Spend Wanted Years
Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
BEN STEIN

Helping Matter Others
No one will do it for you.
BEN STEIN

Action Just One Yourself
If there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
BEN STEIN

Making Money Recessions
Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
BEN STEIN

Buisness Car Home Loan Trying
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.
BEN STEIN

Different Doe Large Loss Money
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
BEN STEIN

Egg Insane Quantity Shopping
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
BEN STEIN

Belief Philosophy Thinking
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
BEN STEIN

Real Running Valley
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
BEN STEIN

Ideas Race Racism
I am scared of running out of money.
BEN STEIN

Money Running Scared
Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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Alive Complexes Humans
The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
BEN STEIN

Good Lending Reckless Times
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.
BEN STEIN

Doubt Ideas Rumor

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