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 STEINRunning a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere… There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid toward your goals.
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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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My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
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Darwinism 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.
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People getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
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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.
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I am scared of running out of money.
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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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I don’t consider an actor a star if he’s paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they’re not role models.
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But when I talk to people who are Darwinists or evolutionists and say, ‘Well, how did life begin’ – they’re… they don’t have an answer. I mean, they have an answer, but it’s a BS answer. It’s an answer that wouldn’t make sense to a small child.
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Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
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The first step in getting what you want from life-decide what you want.
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What’s a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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If you can’t stand the heat, don’t go to Cancun in the summer.
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