Financial Deceit Quotes

For in every country of the world, I believe, the avarice and injustice of princes and sovereign states, abusing the confidence of their subjects, have by degrees diminished the real quantity of metal, which had been originally contained in their coins.

When so much money is involved in these movies, someone somewhere is going to try to screw you.

I didn't defraud the government by taking money that was not mine.

My retirement plan was in place but Bernie Maidoff with my money.

In the Enron scandal, whistleblower Sherron Watkins is now calling herself Enron Brokovitch. She testified Ken Lay was duped by the other executives. Oh, yeah. When is the last time you got duped and made $100 million?

You know what Ken Lay had for breakfast this morning? Shredded Wheat.

If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.

Creative accounting is an absolute curse to a civilization. One could argue that double-entry bookkeeping was one of history's great advances. Using accounting for fraud and folly is a disgrace. In a democracy, it often takes a scandal to trigger reform. Enron was the most obvious example of a business culture gone wrong in a long, long time.

'F.A.S.B' ... 'Financial Accounts Still Bogus'.

Every day seems to bring news about another for-profit college scam. Hundreds of thousands of students have been deceived, misled, and harassed into enrolling at these schools where they end up with a mountain of debt and a worthless degree.

Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.

These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.

Eric Turner; man, that was my man a hundred grand.

Government is not being honest with taxpayers when it renews existing tax breaks and calls them new tax cuts.

Life insurance companies are failing to pay out death benefits when they know the person is dead, and they're claiming they don't know.

When it comes to charities, there's a lot of fraud.

My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

It's mostly the financial chicanery that's going on. People are saying 'What kind of trust can we put in this market?'

The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

I got five kids - I claim three for income tax purposes.

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

My first time performing was in the black box theater of my high school's basement as a member of 'Clownaz,' the school's improv team. We charged money for tickets, saying the proceeds went to our school's recycling program. Then, immediately after the show, we divided up all the money and kept it.

Wall Street wants to keep its schemes too complicated to understand so that the roulette wheel can keep turning.

Wennerström was devoting himself to fraud that was so extensive it was no longer merely criminal–it was business.

Los Angeles is the home of the three little white lies: "The Ferrari is paid for," "The mortgage is assumable," and "It's just a cold sore!