Anacharsis Quotes

Commerce is the school of cheating.

The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.

Business – the world's work – is the sale of lies

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

Trust and transparency, the great principles of the free market, are at stake here.

One can be in business and pursue bad profit. That is, by practicing cronyism—rigging the system to undermine competition, innovation and opportunity, making others worse off. Good profit should lead you to improve your ability to help others improve their lives. But that’s not how many businesses act today.

It is well-known what a middleman is: he is a man who bamboozles one party and plunders the other.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

My opinion is that he's a swindler and you're a sucker.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Regardless of the moral issue, dishonesty in advertising has proved very unprofitable.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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

There is a simple rule here, a rule of legislation, a rule of business, a rule of life: beyond a certain point, complexity is fraud. You can apply that rule to left-wing social programs, but you can also apply that rule to credit derivatives, hedge funds, all the rest of it.

There is no friendship in trade.

It can be hard to say if someone has a deliberate intent to defraud or if they are just really, really bad at their business. But even if people are unpublishable, it doesn't mean they should be ripped off.

There are very honest people who do not think that they have had a bargain unless they have cheated a merchant.

Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish.

We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

But human nature dictates that there will always be cheaters. That's inevitable. Where there's money involved and glory, there are going to be people that cheat, and there will always be ways to cheat.