Mitchell Zuckoff Quotes

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

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

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

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

It's true that people will take advantage of you in Nigeria, but this happens everywhere in the world.

I know every trick in the book, in terms of schemes and fraud.

I'm the type of guy who'd sell you a rat's asshole for a wedding ring.

You set me up," I say. "One big con. You can't blame me because I turned out not to be gullible enough. You can't blame the mark. That's not how it works. Have some respect for the nature of the game.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

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.

My family has something of a special relationship with confidence tricks: my grandfather was a professional swindler.

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 con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way.

This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.

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

A successful swindler has to be a great salesman even more than a great actor.

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.

No Ponzi schemer tells anyone exactly how it works. The purpose of a Ponzi scheme is to trick people, to take the money and run.

It doesn't matter how rich you are - you know when you're being ripped off.

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

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

The wisest hustler can suddenly fall for the worst tramp and lose all of his money on her. The hustler is aware of his own weaknesses and openings to con. This awareness is his edge.

For the grifter, ripping people off is seldom the point. The grifter is an artiste who invests in the long con.