Quotes by 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.
• Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars.
• 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.
• Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows.
• So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
• Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done.
• The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
• It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
• You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot.
• You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is.
• The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy.
• If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer.
• I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.