James Altucher Quotes

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.

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

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

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

You can always cheat an honest man, but it takes more work.

Flattery has to overcome my mistrust, and it does.

When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.

Every swindle is driven by a desire for easy money; it's the one thing the swindler and the swindled have in common.

I like being innocent, but know now when I am being taken for a ride.

I've been fooling the public for years and I'm really good at it.

Sheer flattery got me into the theater. Flattery always works with me, particularly the flattery of women.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

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

He who says he hates every kind of flattery, and says it in earnest, certainly does not yet know every kind of flattery.

Fraud is the homage that force pays to reason.

You want me to tell me the truth or do you want me to stroke you?

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

It's easy to be taken advantage of if you're not honest.

It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays.

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