Scams Quotes

• It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Money, Morality

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• Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.

  Andy Griffith

  Believe, Artist, Ifs

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• The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.

  Bobby Heenan

  Wwe

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• Curiosity pulls people into the scam.

  Frank Stallone

  People, Curiosity

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• The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.

  Matt Taibbi

  Phones, Games, Age

  Matt Taibbi (2010). “Griftopia: Bubble Machines, Vampire Squids, and the Long Con That Is Breaking America”, p.213, Spiegel & Grau

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• The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

  Karen Joy Fowler

  Value Of Money, Values

  Karen Joy Fowler (2013). “We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves: A Novel”, p.145, Penguin

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• Our identity in the world must change from Scam India to Skill India.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Skills, Identity

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• They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.

  Joseph Addison

  Funny, Money, Work

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• However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Clever, Men, Fake

  Brandon Sanderson (2012). “The Emperor's Soul”, p.77, Tachyon Publications

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• Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

  Eddie Izzard

  Cat, Going Away, Deals

  Twitter post from Feb 3, 2015

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• It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.

  John Coleman

  Climate Change, Amazed, Offended

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• The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

  Tony Snow

  Real, Rip, Long

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• It was the heart of any scam or fiddle -- keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Heart, Punters, Uncertain

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• Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

  Ronald Ross

  Wall, Skills, Luck

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• Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.

  Wade Guyton

  Artist, Careers, Supposed To Be

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think it's an American curse that most of us think we are special. ... everyone believes themselves to be superior to the majority of the population in some way. Sometimes it's their looks, other times their perceived sex appeal (often in obvious defiance of their looks), and other times it is their real or imagined talent for acting, writing, painting or banging on the drums. And because people are so susceptible to flattery, there exists an entire industry made up of scam artists whose sole goal is to fleece the flatterable.

  Fay Faron

  Sex, Real, Believe

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• I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.

  Raymond Kelly

  Thinking, Law, Enforcement

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• I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

  Scott Caan

  School, Artist, High School

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• There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam.

  Sky Ferreira

  People, Marketing, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Law, Immigration, Should

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• As I've said before, free money scams are a problem.

  Matthew Lesko

  Problem, Free Money, Said

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• My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

  Aldrich Ames

  Names, People, Giving

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• Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

  Bill Ackman

  Opportunity, University Degrees, Fraud

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• There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and 'un-logical' terms and things like that.....there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let's learn volleyball.

  Tupac Shakur

  Volleyball, Religious, Sex

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• Donald Trump is pulling off a world-class scam here. I mean, he's telling people he's all these things that he's never been his entire life. He says he's fighting for the little guy, the working class. He has spent his entire business career sticking it to working people.

  Marco Rubio

  Mean, Fighting, Class

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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