Quotes By Ben Stein

When are American Jews going to realize that the Republican Party is far better for Israel than the Democrats?

You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.

Men and women succeed because they find a field of endeavor that matches their interests and abilities.

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 am scared of running out of money.

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.

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 amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

If there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.

We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.

If there is no God, why bother to tell the truth? Why not steal?

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.

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.

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

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.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

The America that we knew as the smartest place on the planet is gone with the wind.

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.

Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.

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.

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.

I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.

I am so in love with just lying in bed listening to Mozart.

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.

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.