Ben Stein
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.Collection: Parenting
Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.Collection: God
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.Collection: Sad
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.Collection: Sad
I don't really consider myself to be a personal finance expert compared with some others. There are quite a few that know a lot more than I do.Collection: Finance
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.Collection: Equality
Greed is a basic part of animal nature. Being against it is like being against breathing or eating. It means nothing.Collection: Nature
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Age
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.Collection: Christmas
For me, I've always believed that there was a God. I've always believed that God created the heavens and earth - so, for me it's not a huge leap from there to intelligent design.Collection: Design
I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.Collection: Teacher
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.Collection: Finance
I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.Collection: Car
Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.Collection: Success
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.Collection: Life
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.Collection: Amazing
Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.Collection: Fear
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.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
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.
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.
I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be.
Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac, but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.
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.
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.
Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
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.
If there's a recession, I'd buy stocks. That's when you make money: when markets are spooked.
Darwinism doesn't explain where gravity comes from. It doesn't explain where thermodynamics comes from. It doesn't explain where the laws of physics come from. It doesn't explain where matter came from.
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.
The successful people of this world take life as it comes. They just go out and deal with the world as it is.
So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
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.
People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.
I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.
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.
You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.
If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
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.
Now, although my life is still pleasant, the days of easy money are over.
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.
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.
We in the media are just people with all of people's faults.
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.
It means zero to be against greed.