Ben Stein Quotes

"Jump into the middle of things, get your hands dirty, fall flat on your face, and then reach for the stars."
- Ben Stein
(Related: 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."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Nothing, Will)

"Personal relationships are the fertile soil from which all advancement, all success, all achievement in real life grows."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Life, Success, Achievement, Relationships)

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

"Somewhere there is a map of how it can be done."
- Ben Stein

"The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Life, First, Want)

"It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions."
- Ben Stein
(Related: People)

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

"You cannot win if you're not at the table. You have to be where the action is."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Action)

"The human spirit needs to accomplish, to achieve, to triumph to be happy."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Needs, Spirit)

"If you can't stand the heat, don't go to Cancun in the summer."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Summer)

"I don't like the sound of all the lists he's making."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Sound)

"Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Faith, 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."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Employees, Responsibility, Succeed, Will)

"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."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Life, Defeat, Spirit, Will)

"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."
- Ben Stein
(Related: Time, Purpose, Beginning, Gain, Will)