Michael Bloomberg Quotes

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.

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

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!

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.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

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

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.

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

… one of the world's most disgraceful scams

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.

Three-card monte is one of the most persistent and effective cons in history. The games still pop up along city streets. But we tend to dismiss the victims as rubes.

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

She can’t help it. She loves the con. I tell myself I’m not like her, but I have to admit I love it too.

So far I’m not seeing a lot of difference between me and a carnival con-man.

Give me an honest con man any day.

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.

Marks forget that whenever something's too good to be true, that's because it's a con.

Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.

The world loves to be deceived.

We can all be conned but at what point do we realize that we're being conned and to what point do we allow ourselves to be conned?

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.