The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
BEN STEINMen and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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Sleep more at night. If it’s allowed at work or home, take a nap in the afternoon. You’ll be amazed at how much better you’ll feel.
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Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it’s a vacation destination for me. I say, ‘Because I sometimes have perfect days there.’
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I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they’re unique.
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Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.
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I tell you why I don’t think I will ever vote for a Democrat, if I may say so. Because for me, the number one issue is right to life, and I don’t think the Democrats are very good on the right-to-life issue.
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I have always been very diversified, so I have never suffered a catastrophic loss. I spread my money around the way a large institutional investor does. I use different brokerage firms. I manage some of my accounts myself.
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It’s amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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It isn’t the rich people’s fault that poor people are poor. Poor people who get an education and work hard in this country will stop being poor. That should be the goal for all poor people everywhere.
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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’ve never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I’ve never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
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I am about to vote. I am about to do something that human beings are rarely allowed to do. I am doing something that did not exist until America.
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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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The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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