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 SteinTrying to pick individual stocks is a trap. I can't do it. Warren Buffett can, but hardly anyone else can beat the indexes over a long period of time.
Ben SteinIf there are finer beings than German short hairs, I don't know what they are. In their eyes is peace.
Ben SteinThe poor black people in it make the black people in Gone With the Wind look like Malcolm X.
Ben Stein