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 STEINI 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 STEINI 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.
BEN STEINYou cannot win if you’re not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
BEN STEINPeople getting rich in a free society in general – with some scammy exceptions, which are rare – makes everyone else richer, too.
BEN STEINI am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
BEN STEINWhen we just saw that man, I think it was Mr. Myers, talking about how great scientists were, I was thinking to myself the last time any of my relatives saw scientists telling them what to do they were telling them to go to the showers to get gassed.
BEN STEINI don’t like the sound of all the lists he’s making.
BEN STEINPersonal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
BEN STEINI 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 STEINTrying 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 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 STEINI am back in LA now. And I keep thinking back to my time in New York after the bombings…. I was crying so much I could not see, and the other diners joined in, and I thought, What do you do with such atheistic evil?
BEN STEINThe real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They’re getting shot at and they don’t have any stunt doubles standing in for them.
BEN STEINEvery soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
BEN STEINMy feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution.
BEN STEINThe human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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