Quote: Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows. [Ben Stein]
Quote: The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. [Ben Stein]
Quote: 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. [Ben Stein]
Quote: There is no sudden leap into the stratosphere. There is only advancing step by step, slowly and tortuously, up the pyramid towards your goals. [Ben Stein]
Quote: The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy. [Ben Stein]
Quote: 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. [Ben Stein]
Quote: Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done. [Ben Stein]
Quote: 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. [Ben Stein]
Quote: The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is. [Ben Stein]
Quote: You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot [Ben Stein]
Quote: No one will do it for you. [Ben Stein]
Quote: 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. [Ben Stein]
Quote: It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions. [Ben Stein]
Quote: 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. [Ben Stein]
Quote: 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 Stein]
Quote: I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed. [Ben Stein]
Quote: 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. [Ben Stein]
Quote: Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will. [Ben Stein]
Quote: 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. [Ben Stein]
Quote: Americans are terrified because so many of them have been laid off in recent years and months and they fear that they may be next. Even if they have not been laid off or have not known anyone laid off, they definitely know someone who has lost his home. [Ben Stein]
Quote: 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. [Ben Stein]
Quote: I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. [Ben Stein]
Quote: 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. [Ben Stein]
Quote: 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. [Ben Stein]
Quote: The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. [Ben Stein]