Victoria Strauss Quotes

Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.

Investors are sometimes too busy looking for profits to notice where the truth ends and the deception begins.

Theranos was a combination of fraud with hubris mixed with incompetence.

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.

Profit is sweet, even if it comes from deception.

You can't make a representation and then claim you didn't make it. You know, it just shouldn't work that way.

Business should never be allowed to justify mean, thug ugly deals for any reason.

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

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

A market is a place set apart for men to deceive and get the better of one another.

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

I had a gentleman steal or 'misplace' - I guess I should say 'allegedly' - a lot of money from me. It didn't make any sense when it was happening, because I just didn't understand why I didn't have any money. I was a perfect mark because I had all of this shame and insecurity about money.

[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out that we are erring mortals and must allow for each other's weaknesses! - an excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another's shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another's pockets.

Commerce is the school of cheating.

I regret the Pro Fit investment because I didn't know that I was dealing with people who were more concerned about the exposure than fixing their business.

Fake is, like, the worst word you could possibly use to describe anything, you know?

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

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

Don't tell me of deception; a lie is a lie, whether it be a lie to the eye or a lie to the ear.

There's a fine line between marketing and grand theft.

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

It would be strange for me to think I'm being ripped off, because that's what I do!

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

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

Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!