What Would Ben Stein Do? Applying the Wisdom of a Modern-Day Prophet to Tackle the Challenges of Work and Life

by Stein, Ben

• ISBN13: 9781118038178
• ISBN10: 1118038177
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-10-25
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Ben Stein's experience from Washington to Hollywood and everywhere in between-- makes him the ideal individual to offer advice to others. His expertise in countless fields make his valuable, keen observations that cover the range of topics and challenges that most people face every day -- the perfect topic for his next book, What Would Ben Stein Do?: It's a question we'd all be wise to ask ourselves when contemplating an array of issues in both business and life: What Would Ben Stein Do... About a 401(k)? When traveling in a country where he didn't know the language? Performing a job he was rapidly outgrowing? Trapped in a struggling relationship? Negotiating a pay increase? Job hunting in a difficult economy? Delivered with the dry, honest wit that millions of people have come to know and love, Ben Stein's next work What Would Ben Stein Do? will provide advice on any question imaginable from the man who has all the answers.

Author Biography

BEN STEIN, a graduate of Yale Law School, worked as a trial lawyer and a poverty lawyer. He taught about the political and social content of mass culture and law and economics at American University; the University of California, Santa Cruz; and Pepperdine University. He was a speech writer for Presidents Nixon and Ford, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, a bestselling author several times over, a teacher of finance, a screenwriter, a novelist, and has also enjoyed a career as an actor, most notably for his role as the droning teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, recently ranked one of the fifty most famous scenes in American film. In short, Ben Stein is a man who has lived, and one would do well to heed his advice.

Table of Contents

Marriage: A Big, Big Deal	p. 1
Character Is Your Most Important Product, and Work Is a Life or Death Matter	p. 5
Work = Character	p. 9
Work Is Not the Same as Looking for Work	p. 13
Personality, No Divas Wanted	p. 19
Getting Along in Marriage Is Not Easy-It's a Job	p. 27
Tipping	p. 41
Work Is a Gift from God	p. 47
The Need to Save Money Is Life or Death	p. 57
There Are Few Guarantees	p. 61
Your Beloved Parents	p. 67
Does Death Really Come as the End? Maybe Not	p. 71
Friendship Is Golden	p. 77
Don't Be Late!	p. 81
Do Not Cross Other People's Borders without Being Invited In	p. 87
I Am Just Like You, Only I Am Me	p. 93
You Are Not at the Center of the Universe	p. 99
The Next Indicated Action	p. 103
You Are What You Drive	p. 107
The Absolutely Fastest, Surest Way to Get Rich Quick	p. 115
Silence Is Golden	p. 121
Gratitude, Revisited	p. 125
A Day to Remember	p. 129
Save and Beware	p. 135
Play It Safe	p. 141
Be Nice	p. 145
Thoughts on the Economic Morass and How to Get Out of It	p. 149
Progress, Not Perfection	p. 155
Education-To Read or Not to Read	p. 159
The Good Side of Drugs	p. 169
To the Tables Down at Mory's	p. 177
Tax Policy	p. 187
Benjyrama	p. 195
Index	p. 201
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