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 STEINThere is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
BEN STEINThe 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.
BEN STEINDarwinism doesn’t explain where gravity comes from. It doesn’t explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn’t explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn’t explain where matter comes from.
BEN STEINSo, 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 STEINYou 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 STEINRunning a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
BEN STEINThe poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
BEN STEINI love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
BEN STEINIt’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.
BEN STEINThe successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
BEN STEINIt’s a lot better to hope than not to.
BEN STEINFathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured… But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
BEN STEINIf there’s a recession, I’d buy stocks. That’s when you make money: when markets are spooked.
BEN STEINI thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.
BEN STEINIf we are just specks of dust hit by lightning, if we have no spark of God in us, why not just take whatever we can and devil take the hindmost? I mean, we are fools not to do that if there is no right or wrong.
BEN STEINEmperor Sid Caesar is gone to eternity himself now. He takes with him the gratitude of every one of us who first learned the relief of laughter from this genuinely great performer.
BEN STEIN