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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

#began #beginning #each #fail #failing

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. ↗

— Ben Stein

#been #blog #corporate #evil #fight

I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

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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

#corporation #doing #employees #everything #get

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God. ↗

— Ben Stein

#devolved #god #history #i #mankind

The ordinary American - as far as I can tell - knows so much less than he did fifty years ago and has such poor work habits compared with fifty years ago that the average multiplicand of knowledge/capabilities is a much smaller number than it was in 1961. ↗

— Ben Stein

#american #as far as #average #capabilities #compared

As Beverly Hills becomes more Iranian-Jewish, it is becoming politically conservative. ↗

— Ben Stein

#becoming #beverly #beverly hills #conservative #hills

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#efficient #find #i #possible #pupil

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#answer #any #been #gonna #never

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#always #basic #basic principle #be strong #cannot