Fraud Quotes

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

  Al Pacino

  Truth, Reality, Ability

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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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• Things gained through unjust fraud are never secure.

  Sophocles

  Hype, Unjust, Wise Man Once Said

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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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• 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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• 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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• The main difference between marketing and fraud is that criminals have to pay for their own alcohol.

  Scott Adams

  Differences, Alcohol, Marketing

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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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• 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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• 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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• For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Attitude, Science

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.51, Broadway Books

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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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• 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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• He who wins through fraud is not a winner.

  Umar

  Winning, Winner

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• Fraud makes the world go round.

  John Updike

  World, Rounds

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.6, Random House

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• The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Ignorant, Wells

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• Fraud and deceit abound in these days more than in former times.

  Edward Coke

  Deceit, These Days, Former

  Sir Edward Coke (1777). “The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. [1572-1617]: In English, in Thirteen Parts Complete; with References to All the Ancient and Modern Books of the Law”

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• Education and prevention are not enough when there is a culture of fraud.

  Travis Tygart

  Culture, Enough

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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

  Jean Baudrillard

  Ignorance, Opposites, Deceit

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• Earth's a howling wilderness,
  Truculent with fraud and force.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Suffering, Earth, Wilderness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.41

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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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• Fraud is the daughter of greed.

  John Grant

  Daughter, Greed

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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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• But I'm acutely aware that the possibility of fraud is even more prevalent in today's world because of the Internet and cell phones and the opportunity for instant communication with strangers.

  Armistead Maupin

  Communication, Opportunity, Phones

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