Quotes By Ben Stein

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.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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 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.

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?

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

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.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

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.