Unscrupulous Business Practices Quotes

I think there's a point to regulating, because there are snake oil companies.

The American people fear there is some gouging going on.

Legitimate profit is good. What's bad is profiteering.

... a lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war.

Hype is supposed to overpromise and underdeliver, not overpromise and overdeliver. Usually, it doesn't deliver at all - it takes your money and keeps your pizza.

I find in Britain people are both more arty and more willing to rip you off.

But there are too many people that make so much money at the cost of lives of other humans and for no reason but to make the money.

Since this report has been read in the House, a spirit of havoc, speculation and ruin, has arisen by people who had access to the information… Three vessels Sir have sailed within a fortnight freighted for speculation; they are intended to purchase up the State and other securities in the hands of the uninformed but honest citizens of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. My soul rises indignant at the avaricious and immoral turpitude which so vile a conduct displays.

It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry.

The houses were built to sell. That they killed the tenants was no concern of the builder’s.

We have seen that in this country in the last few years, particularly on Wall Street, with the rise of the old human frailty of greed. This occurs when people begin to serve only their own needs to the detriment of everyone else.

The problem with Donald Trump is that he went and designed a brand that is entirely amoral.

Food is being purposefully formulated to addict you.Then it is purposefully marketed, targeted to young children to addict them at an early age. This is unethical, right? This is immoral, particularly when you see the results of it which is this world-wide epidemic of diabetes and obesity.

The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.

I've spent my career fighting the worst practices of insurance companies.

Corporate greed in New York won. It suffocated anything interesting out of the city.

I thought that there would never again be an opportunity to be involved with an industry as socially destructive and morally bankrupt as the subprime mortgage industry. I was wrong. The for-profit education industry has proven equal to the task.

It's clear price gouging... The oil companies are gouging the American citizenry aggressively, relentlessly, and without any sense of conscience whatsoever.

I am always loath to use the world 'evil,' but if 'evil' is the reverse of 'live,' Guy de Rothschild is thoroughly evil. He stands for the opposite of life.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

We did not get any money from the early records. It was all taken by crooked managers. It is just a gangster's paradise.

The trusts are getting less than lawful rates from the railroads.

You will have to look a long way before you find a bunch of scum-suckers more greedy, humourless and deserving of death than the suits in the music business.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Faffing is completely harmless, whereas its opposite - dynamic, purposeful activity - is often very harmful. Faffers do not tend to kill people or make them work 12-hour days or sell them shoddy merchandise or lend them vast sums of money that they cannot pay back.