Illicit Wealth Quotes

Making a million legally has always been difficult. Making a million illegally has always been a little easier. Keeping a million when you have made it is perhaps the most difficult of all.

I've never enriched myself via privatization schemes in Eastern Europe.

The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.

[Senator]Torricelli [D-NJ] will leave public office with just the clothes on his back, a Rolex watch and other assorted jewelry, a TV set, a couple of racks of Italian suits, some Jets tickets, a grandfather clock and three paper sacks filled with small, unmarked bills.

Wealth gained by dishonesty will be diminished, but he who gathers by labor will increase.

What is got over the devil's back is spent under his belly.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.

Ill-gotten wealth is never stable.

Black money is a cancer in our economic system, not yet terminal or life-threatening.

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, forgotten because it was properly done.

Furthermore, a large portion of the assets of leading Russian figures is mixed, meaning that it is not quite clear how to counter this development.

When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival, unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police.

One of the biggest lies in the world is that crime doesn't pay. Of course, crime pays.