Pyramid Schemes Quotes

• You will meet people who believe all network marketing opportunities are pyramid schemes. Why spend all your time trying to convince them otherwise when there are legions of people who are open to what you have?

  Randy Gage

  Believe, Opportunity, Pyramids

  Randy Gage (2001). “How to build a multi-level money machine: the science of network marketing”, p.94, Internet Profit Kit

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• I am often asked if Network Marketing is a Pyramid Scheme. My reply is that corporations really are pyramid schemes. A corporation has only one person at the top, generally the CEO, and everyone else below.

  Donald Trump

  Pyramids, Mlm, Marketing

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• Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.

  Bernard Katz

  Atheist, Thinking, Pyramids

  "Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Nonbelievers, Political". Book by Jack Huberman, 2008.

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• It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.

  Bill Ackman

  Believe, Pyramids, People

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• Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank God we have that in the toolbox. But if you don't manage it in some way that incorporates all of society, if everybody's not benefiting on some level and you don't have a sense of shared purpose, national purpose, then it's just a pyramid scheme.

  David Simon

  Thinking, Pyramids, Thank God

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top.

  Donald Trump

  Pyramids, Direct Sales, Corporations

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• The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.

  Joe Heck

  Retirement, Thinking, Years

  "Joe Heck: Social Security 'a pyramid scheme'". Interview with David Catanese, www.politico.com. June 3, 2011.

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• Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.

  Tao Lin

  Self, Ideas, Pyramids

  Tao Lin (2007). “Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel”, Melville House Pub

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• They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Pyramids, Church, Credit

  Barbara Kingsolver (2012). “Flight Behaviour”, p.21, Faber & Faber

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• I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.

  Amanda Palmer

  Thinking, Top Down, Pyramids

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters.

  Paul Reiser

  Kids, Pyramids, Parent

  Paul Reiser (2012). “Babyhood”, p.18, Harper Collins

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