Ben Stein

What Would Ben Stein Do?

Applying the Wisdom of a Modern-Day Prophet to Tackle the Challenges of Work and Life

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 416g
• ISBN-13: 9781118038178
• ISBN-10: 1118038177
• Artikelnr.: 33401868

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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