Fraud Quotes

• The fraudster's greatest liability is the certainty that the fraud is too clever to be detected.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Clever, Certainty, Liability

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• Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

  Sophocles

  Honesty, Integrity, Honor

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• Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.

  Alan Greenspan

  Successful, Stuff, Way

  "Alan Greenspan vs. Naomi Klein on the Iraq War, Bush’s Tax Cuts, Economic Populism, Crony Capitalism and More". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 24, 2007.

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• If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Ifs

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.37, Random House

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• Our ability to manufacture fraud now exceeds our ability to detect it.

  Al Pacino

  Truth, Reality, Ability

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• There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Hypocrisy, Three, World

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• Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

  Sophocles

  Hype, Unjust, Wise Man Once Said

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• Whoever commits a fraud is guilty not only of the particular injury to him who he deceives, but of the diminution of that confidence which constitutes not only the ease but the existence of society.

  Samuel Johnson

  Deceit, Ease, Guilty

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.147

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• If it is too good to be true....it is probably a fraud.

  Ron Weber

  Too Good To Be True, Being True, Ifs

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• Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Deceit, Prudent

  John Andreas Widtsoe, Leah Dunford Widtsoe (1938). “The word of wisdom: a modern interpretation”

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• Fraud and falsehood only dread examination. Truth invites it.

  Samuel Johnson

  Examination, Dread, Invites

  Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy, 1831.

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• He who wins through fraud is not a winner.

  Umar

  Winning, Winner

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• All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force.

  George Orwell

  Force, Tyranny, Exposed

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• Fraud and deceit have been practiced since the beginning of history...Brass has been called gold; glass has been sold as diamonds; and poison has been hawked as excellent food. The story of fraud throughout the ages forms an ugly chapter of human history.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Honesty, Glasses, Age

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• There are some frauds so well conducted that it would be stupidity not to be deceived by them.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Stupid, Would Be, Deceived

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.60

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• Well, you probably will always believe there should be laws against fraud, and I don't think there is any need for a law against fraud.

  Alan Greenspan

  Believe, Thinking, Law

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  Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Beautiful, Gambling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It is possible that the scrupulously honest man may not grow rich so fast as the unscrupulous and dishonest one; but the success will be of a truer kind, earned without fraud or injustice. And even though a man should for a time be unsuccessful, still he must be honest: better lose all and save character. For character is itself a fortune. . . .

  Samuel Smiles

  Success, Honesty, Character

  Samuel Smiles (2005). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Conduct and Perseverance”, p.287, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The opposite of knowledge is not ignorance, but deceit and fraud.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Ignorance, Opposites, Deceit

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• Fraud is the daughter of greed.

  John Grant

  Daughter, Greed

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• The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self.

  Philip James Bailey

  Motivational, Cheating, Self

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.131

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• Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud.

  Aristotle

  Two, Way, Revolution

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.4685, Catholic Way Publishing

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• It is a fraud to borrow what we are unable to pay.

  Publilius Syrus

  Hype, Pay, Borrowing

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• In a way, fraud in business is no different from infidelity in marriage or plagiarism in scholarly work. Even people committed to high moral standards succumb.

  Miroslav Volf

  People, Infidelity, Different

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• All frauds, like the wall daubed with untempered mortar ... always tend to the decay of what they are devised to support.

  Richard Whately

  Wall, Support, Decay

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