Ben Stein quotes

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

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

I think, there are many people who are much smarter than I am, and many, many, many who are much harder-working than I am, but in terms of the range of my activities, they're unique.
- Ben Stein

I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
- Ben Stein

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.
- Ben Stein

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.
- Ben Stein

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

I feel as if I'm in on a pass and am damn lucky to have whatever I have. It could all be taken away in a second.
- Ben Stein

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

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

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.
- Ben Stein

Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am certain that the Communists killed JFK. There is a super great book called 'Legend' by Edward Jay Epstein that makes it all perfectly clear.
- Ben Stein

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

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.
- Ben Stein

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... But not everyone must prove they are a citizen.
- Ben Stein

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot
- Ben Stein

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

And now, any of those who refuse, or are unable, to prove they are citizens will receive free insurance paid for by those who are forced to buy insurance because they are citizens.
- Ben Stein

Science leads you to killing people.
- Ben Stein

What's a good investment? Go home from work early and spend the afternoon throwing a ball around with your son.
- Ben Stein