I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
BEN STEINPeople getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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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.
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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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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.
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I am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
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I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
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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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Trying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can’t do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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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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Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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Nothing happens by itself… it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
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I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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