Top 153 Quotes & Sayings by Ben Stein
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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.
We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.
If Iran and North Korea, by some horrible, devilish, nightmarish scenario, got together and went to war at the same time, one against Saudi Arabia and one against South Korea, I don't know what we would do about that. I don't know that we could stop them short of using nuclear weapons.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
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.
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions.
A corporation's responsibility is to the shareholders, not its retirees and employees. Companies are doing everything they can to get rid of pension plans and they will succeed.
It's a great stretch for me to do my game show. It's very hard. It's not me at all. The only part that's me is sort of when I'm sitting in the booth looking tormented. That's the only part that's the real me.
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.
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
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.
We're a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don't exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.
People ask how I can be a conservative and still want higher taxes. It makes my head spin, and I guess it shows how old I am. But I thought that conservatives were supposed to like balanced budgets. I thought it was the conservative position to not leave heavy indebtedness to our grandchildren.
My parents, products of the Great Depression, were successful people, but lived in a state of constant fear that my sister and I, and they, would sink into the kind of economic insecurity that their generation knew so well.
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 came from.
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.
I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we're their most reliable ally, too.
Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.
I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.
It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders.
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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.
The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.
If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
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.
When I seemed to be irritable or sad, my father would quote the learned Dr. Knight, and then say, 'Just go to sleep.' Like all smart aleck kids, I thought the advice was silly. But as I've grown older, I've realized just how smart Knight was.
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.
I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
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.
I have always been very concerned that Darwinism gave the basic okay to terrible racism and to the idea of murder based upon race.
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.
Put simply, the rich pay a lot of taxes as a total percentage of taxes collected, but they don't pay a lot of taxes as a percentage of what they can afford to pay, or as a percentage of what the government needs to close the deficit gap.
Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.
We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
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.
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
The people who did the collateralized mortgage obligations, sold them to pension funds, then sold them short, then bought credit default swap insurance on them, are just amazing. They are a law unto themselves.
You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.
Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
It means zero to be against greed.
I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.
You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
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.
If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
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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