Who is Ben Stein

Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944) is an American writer, lawyer, actor, comedian, and commentator on political and economic issues. He began his career as a speechwriter for U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford before entering the entertainment field as an actor, comedian, and game show host. He is best known on screen as the economics teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, as the host of Win Ben Stein's Money, and as Dr. Arthur Neuman in The Mask and Son of the Mask. Stein also co-wrote and starred in the 2008 propaganda film Expelled promoting pseudoscientific intelligent design creationist claims of persecution. Stein is the son of economist and writer Herbert Stein, who worked at the White House under President Nixon. As a character actor he is well known for his dr...
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Ben Stein Quotes

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

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Comments about Ben Stein

• Marvindunn4: 'i would also look sad': twitter roasts ben stein for racist rant saying black people 'never had it so good'
• Citeseer: "if there are finer beings than german short hairs, i don't know what they are. in their eyes is peace." - ben stein
• Mrcrankepants: white characters on products. no squaw on the butter, uncle ben n aunt jemima gone. i too, like ben stein, liked the damn bottle of syrup better, the commercials, everything was better as aunt jemima. how she was a product of racism after how many friggin years, suddenly? ignant.
• Quotes_drl: "the indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.” – ben stein
• Meetshahv: the little book series: (aswath damodaran) the little book on valuation (john bogle) the little book of common sense investing (jason zweig) the little book of safe money (ben stein) the little book of bullet proof investing (pat dorsey) the little book that builds wealth

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