Rick Ross Quotes

Black markets exist any time there is a profit to be made.

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy.

The greater the penalties laid on sellers in the black market... the higher the black market price.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

Illegal stills had always been plentiful in the South, so Prohibition there did not have the bite that it had in the North.

Illicit trade corrupts corporations and governments alike, allows dictators to survive, and obscures oppression, including modern day slavery.

What Brighton's got is a major sea port on either side, good for importing drugs, great for exporting cash, stolen cars, stolen antiques. It's got the largest number of antique shops in the UK, so it's a great place to fence stolen goods. It's got tremendous communication: you've got the sea ports, you've got the channel tunnel, you've got Gatwick Airport 25 minutes away, and London's 50 minutes away by train. So all these escape routes... Which is what villains like.

I've done a bit of smuggling, I've run my share of grass. I made enough money to buy Miami, but I piss it away so fast.

It's a losing proposition, but one you can't refuse. It's the politics of contraband, it's the smuggler's blues.

When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality.

Dubai must crack down on rampant smuggling, and the U.A.E. federal government has significantly stepped up pressure.

Rogue economics is a sort of umbrella under which we find the criminal economy, the illegal economy, but also those gray areas, gray areas where there is not a proper regulation, where there is not legislation for the economy.

Drug traffickers have more and more haystacks in which to hide their contraband needles.

The contraband trade carried on between this place [New York City] and Holland prevails to an enormous degree …. The vessels from Holland … do not come into this port, but anchor at some distance in the numerous bays or creeks that our coast and rivers furnish, from whence the contraband goods are sent up in small boats. Dutch gunpowder has been in use in this colony ever since I came into it.

People have to cooperate. Many people and traders here try to evade tax. They don’t want to pay tax so they smuggle goods and services into this country to make more money—as much as possible. The also manipulate the foreign currency market.

The can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

A bootlegger is a bootlegger, a scalper is a scalper.

Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.

We all use cash in our everyday life, but we don't use hundred-dollar bills. We're not using 500-euro notes. And yet these account for mountains of cash out there. I think they're being used in tax evasion and by criminals of all types.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

When Mexicans sneak across the border, they're more apt to carry a bag of pot then they are a fistful of money. Because the pot can be exchanged for money, anywhere in America. Anywhere in the world!

I can see none of you are smugglers; that's why it's so loud.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.