Quotes By Ben Stein

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.

If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.

Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.

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.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.

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.

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.

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

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.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

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

Israel being condemned by the EU, which 66 years ago watched with glee as its Jews were being mass murdered. That is pretty rich.

So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

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.

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.

Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.

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.

It means zero to be against greed.

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.

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

Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.