Trying 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 STEINWhen Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
More Ben Stein Quotes
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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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I agree that there are some bad apples on Wall Street. I spent about ten years exposing corporate and financial fraud for ‘Barron’s’ magazine and I found a lot to write about.
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Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.
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I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against.
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I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
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I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period.
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When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
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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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Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over gain, and you will grow stronger until have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.
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I’m out and about meeting people all day long. And I’m very friendly; I talk to just about everybody I meet.
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Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
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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.
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I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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I’m not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
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Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles in the universe, gravity, thermodynamics, motion, how those originated. It’s got some gigantic missing pieces.
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