I’m an economist by training. I don’t really work as an economist. I only worked briefly as an economist.
BEN STEINI came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty … This is my highest and best use as a human.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
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The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
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After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he’s been through is the reason why.
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The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
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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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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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I cannot tell you … how to be rich. But I can tell you how to feel rich, which is far better, let me tell you firsthand, than being rich. Be grateful… It is the only totally reliable get rich quick scheme.
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I 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.
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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 am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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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’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 have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution, and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.
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Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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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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