Words matter. These are the best Ben Stein Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
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.
I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.
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.
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
Israel is our strongest, most reliable ally in the Middle East. Of course, we’re their most reliable ally, too.
Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.
If you want to fight the evil you see in finance and industry, get to work reading the corporate filings, see if there has been fraud, and where you find it, report it to the SEC or write about it or blog about it.
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.
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
I always assumed scientists were free to ask any question, pursue any line of inquiry without fear or reprisal.
Running a real business is exacting, daunting, repetitive work. Even in Silicon Valley.
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.
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
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.
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.
I have a great pic of my father and Rev. Graham laughing hysterically at some joke with George Pratt Shultz looking on back in 1972 or so.
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.
When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.
I think it’s criminal how little people in the military are paid. These are people out risking their lives, taken away from their families for long periods of time. I think they should be paid dramatically more than they’re paid.
We’re a lazy, undisciplined generation. I don’t exempt myself: I spend way too much, even though I make a good income.
Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That’s a terrifying situation. That’s contrary to the principles of science.
I am so used to having a comfortable life. What will it be like when I am no longer able to just buy anything I want?
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.
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.
I am scared of running out of money.
When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?
Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.
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.’
If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?
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.
We in the media are just people with all of people’s faults.
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.
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.
The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
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.
It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, ‘Merry Christmas’ to me. I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it.
So many fail because they don’t get started – they don’t go. They don’t overcome inertia. They don’t begin.
Traders can cause short-term volatility. In the long run, the market must revert to a sensible price/earnings multiple.
Wow, bad news. Mr. Obama now hates Israel because the Israelis want to build 1,600 apartments in their own capital city, Jerusalem. Russia hates Israel, too. So do the Europeans. So does Ban Ki-moon, a Korean who is secretary-general of the UN.
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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.
I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.
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.
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.
