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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.

Ben Stein

The poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
BEN STEIN

Black People Wind
I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
BEN STEIN

Sacrifice Thank You Thanksgiving
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
BEN STEIN

Beautiful Men Years
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 STEIN

Smart Thinking Wall
The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
BEN STEIN

Decide First Getting Self Step Want
There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
BEN STEIN

Goal Pyramids Steps
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
BEN STEIN

Accomplishment Happiness Inner Peace
That was horrifying beyond words, and that’s where science – in my opinion, this is just an opinion – that’s where science leads you.
BEN STEIN

Beyond Horrifying Just Opinion Science
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
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.
BEN STEIN

Country People School
Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
BEN STEIN

Fields Men Succeed
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
BEN STEIN

Become Get Ill Old Scare
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 think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant – just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.
BEN STEIN

Brilliant Evolution Thinking
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
BEN STEIN

Done Everything Life Pain Real
I don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
BEN STEIN

Like List Making Sound

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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