Craig David Quotes

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

The reason con artists get away with what they get away with is, their victims are ashamed of their own blindness and their own gullibility, and they tend to just quietly go away.

More often than not, what you open, unwrap and install on your hard drive is not what you were told you were getting.

I'm scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.

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

We want to believe that we're invulnerable, and that people who get tricked deserve it. Well, they don't. And someday the arrogant types who mock the gullible are likely to get their turn to wear the dunce cap.

Attractive labels are usually attached to the most dangerous programs, often in the name of public welfare and personal security.

The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

I've always loved movies about con men. I think con men are as American as apple pie.

What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

But if anyone supposes that there was no commercial fraud in the Middle Ages, let him study the commercial legislation of England for that period, and his mind will be satisfied, if he has a mind to be satisfied and not only a fancy to run away with him.

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.

Trade agreements have always been greased about deception of who benefits. Now they are failing because leaders have come to believe their own lies.

Campaigns exaggerate or oversimplify the truth because it’s effective.

The usual trade and commerce is cheating all around by consent.

A gold mine is a hole in the ground with a liar at the bottom.

Donald Trump is a phony, a fraud. His promises are as worthless as a degree from Trump University.

These facts are clear: Trump University was an unlicensed enterprise promising students that they would become wealthy by learning Trump's real estate tips and strategies, taught by his handpicked instructors.

Serious collectors and art experts, among the world's most educated, often cannot fathom the possibility of being rooked, and then once taken, cannot face the humiliation of admitting it.

In India, people still want an image to connect to and, even if it's a false one, they will stick to it. We are ready and want to be fooled by someone or the other, be it a baba or a politician.

I would rather be the man who bought the Brooklyn Bridge than the man who sold it.

The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up.

The most important thing for any con artist is never to think like a mark. Marks think they can get something for nothing. Marks think they can get what they don’t deserve and could never deserve. Marks are stupid and pathetic and sad. Marks think they’re going to go home one night and have the girl they’ve loved since they were a kid suddenly love them back. Marks forget that whenever something’s too good to be true, that’s because it’s a con.

Allow a friend to believe in a bogus prospectus or a false promise and you cease, after a short while, to be a friend at all.

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.