I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
BEN STEINI 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.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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No one will do it for you.
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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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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
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I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were 25 just a few days ago.
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For me, I’ve always believed that there was a God. I’ve always believed that God created the heavens and earth – so, for me it’s not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.
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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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My ‘thing’ is that I just lie in my immense bed and look out the window at the skyline over Virginia and the sky and the airplanes coming into Reagan. I really love doing that.
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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’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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I feel as if I’m in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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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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Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.
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You cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.
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Prime-time network television has become an island without religion in an ever-more-religious America.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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Neo-Darwinists ask us to believe in things not seen. We’re not supposed to have an established religion in America, but we do, and it’s called Darwinism .
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Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
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Every morning, I get up, get out of bed, and get on my knees and thank God for waking up in America … (She is) the light of the world … A nation of heroes …
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The scientific community says that if you even mention God as causes of anything scientific, you’re gone.
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Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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