Quotes About Scam

#1. I'm scammed almost every day. Or, if not scammed, at the very least someone tries to scam me. Usually more than once a day.

James Altucher

#2. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.

Richard Dawkins

#3. In a setting of formal education, one would imagine that abstract thought would be encouraged, and that questioning obvious errors within the current system wouldn't be frowned upon. Wrong again; these cunts are out to protect their pocket books and paradigms.

Scott Parker

#4. When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook.

Evangeline Lilly

#5. I was a scam artist in high school for a while.

Scott Caan

#6. I plead alignment to the flakes of the untitled snakes of a merry cow and to the republicrats for which they scam: one nacho, underpants with licorice and jugs of wine for owls.

Matt Groening

#7. If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#8. The money's the same, whether you earn it or scam it.

Bobby Heenan

#9. Standardized state tests are a scam! The educational system is rigged. It is set up to where the wealthy schools, get all of the state funding. The poverty-stricken schools, don't get enough funding due to standardized tests scores. See my point?

Mary Sage Nguyen

#10. I loved Internet businesses, having built and sold one. And I loved the financial business, despite the fact that it was almost all a scam.

James Altucher

#11. The real scam is that being bones isn't enough either. The game is rigged. There is no perfection.

Lindy West

#12. Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.

Wade Guyton

#13. As me old granny used to say before they carried her home to glory, there's three parts to a good sermon. First The Hook, then lay on The Guilt, then you deliver The Sting. I'll be sending the collection plate round shortly.

Andre The BFG

#14. Wall Street's favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.

Ronald Ross

#15. I had always wondered why people wanted to be rich and famous. If you could be rich and anonymous, that would be fun. To be famous and not rich, the way we were, was the least fun. It takes time and effort to be famous, and if they offer you fame without the money, don't take it. It's a scam.

Alan Alda

#16. Curiosity pulls people into the scam.

Frank Stallone

#17. I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it ... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

Gary Coleman

#18. Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#19. The whole fabric of our religion is based on superstitious belief in lies that have been foisted upon us for ages by those directly above us, to whose personal profit and aggrandizement it was to have us continue to believe as they wished us to believe.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

#20. Communal forests around the world are being turned into privatized tree farms and preserves so their owners can collect something called "carbon credits," a lucrative scam I'll explore later.

Naomi Klein

#21. It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming; It is a scam. Some dastardly scientists with environmental and political motives manipulated long term scientific data to create an illusion of rapid global warming.

John Coleman

#22. Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.

P.Sainath

#23. Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.

Bill Ackman

#24. Anything someone gets conned into will never be that great.

Roberto Hogue

#25. We need a Skilled India but Congress has created a Scam India in the last 10 years.

Narendra Modi

#26. We have to be very cautious not to accept the scam of polarization we see in the media. It is not in fact between secularists and Islamists, it is a battle within the Islamic reference.

Tariq Ramadan

#27. When I consider Life, 'tis all a cheat;
Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit;
Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay:
To-morrow's falser than the former day;
Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest
With some new joys, cuts off what we possesst.

John Dryden

#28. ...being a weatherman in Ireland is about the biggest scam going.

Rachel Friedman

#29. If Nana thinks you're trying to scam her, she'll tell you, and if she thinks you ruined her life by discontinuing Arnold's Thin bread, she'll let you know that, too. I guess when you spend eighty-seven years swallowing other people's bullshit, there comes a time when you gotta spit some back.

Laurie Notaro

#30. Because love is the greatest scam of all time. And because as much as I fucking love you, I hate you for inflicting it upon me!

J.A. Redmerski

#31. Cats have a scam going - you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that's the deal.

Eddie Izzard

#32. Religion is the theological equivalent of a quick-buck insurance scam, where you pay in your premium year after year, and then, when you need the benefits you paid for so - pardon the pun - so religiously, you discover the company that took your money does not, in fact, exist.

Stephen King

#33. The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don't

Karen Joy Fowler

#34. Was. I found he usually wanted a free guest pass for whoever was with him instead of paying the six bucks. This chiseling behavior helped me realize that most gym fees are a scam and only suckers pay them. I

Tina Fey

#35. Donald Trump pulling off a world-class scam here. I mean, he's telling people he's all these things that he's never been his entire life. He says he's fighting for the little guy, the working class. He has spent his entire business career sticking it to working people.

Marco Rubio

#36. They want to believe, but there are too many villains in the world and not enough heroes for anyone to truly buy into the scam that is hope.

Shaun David Hutchinson

#37. Everyone is selling something, if you can't see what people are selling, maybe you're the cart.

Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel

#38. The SAT is a scam.

John Katzman

#39. It could have been called the scam of the century, their pretense of a happy marriage,yet as several weeks passed and it continued with such perfection, Rebecca had to pinch herself to keep from believing it herself.

Johanna Lindsey

#40. Imagine being 30 years old, thinking you were a media titan, and now you are labeled a 'scam artist.'

Jason Calacanis

#41. There's people trying to tell me what to do, but I'm not like some marketing scam.

Sky Ferreira

#42. People lie and scam because you are too stupid to understand it.

Deyth Banger

#43. I tried the religion scam in Miami, so I know how hard that gig is. But, if you can get it to work, starting your own religion is a license to print money.

Lenny Bruce

#44. Power feminism is just another scam in which women get to play patriarchs and pretend that the power we seek and gain liberates us.

Bell Hooks

#45. The UID is a corporate scam which funnels billions of dollars into the IT sector

Arundhati Roy

#46. The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too much of humanity, that idea, to make its azure origin plausible ...

Vladimir Nabokov

#47. Ben laughed. "You think all religions are scams, don't you?"
"Yes, I suppose I do," Epstein said. "But the religions are mostly scamming themselves. That they scam others is usually a side-effect.

James L. Halperin

#48. Well, I don't think that the SAT is a scam.

Robert Sternberg

#49. It was the heart of any scam or fiddle
keep the punter uncertain, or, if he is certain, make him certain of the wrong thing.

Terry Pratchett

#50. I don't think Steve [Jobs] started Apple as a scam. But he understood early on the power of marketing. The idea of the computer as a bicycle for the human mind - I think that was something he believed.

Alex Gibney

#51. My message is that the counterclaim - which is that if wages go up, employment will go down - is a scam. It's a con job. It's an intimidation tactic. There is absolutely no evidence anywhere that it's true. On the contrary, where you find high wages you usually find low unemployment.

Nick Hanauer

#52. The mortality rate among sea horses is not to be believed. Because the difference between a dead sea horse and a living sea horse is imperceptible, selling dead sea horses would make a very good pet store scam.

Sloane Crosley

#53. Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

John Stossel

#54. Tonight I've been dealing with a known killer, a male whore, a scam artist and now I've graduated to talking to a mayor. Who's next? The President of the National Association of Rodents?

V. Alexander

#55. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I'm very worried about the low opinion that conservative hosts and callers have of the American artist. Art is portrayed as a scam, a rip-off and snow job pushed by snobbish elites.

Camille Paglia

#56. Donald Trump is not a Republican. Donald Trump is not a conservative. Donald Trump is trying to pull off the biggest scam in American political history, basically a con job, where he's trying to take over the Republican Party by telling people he's someone who he is not.

Marco Rubio

#57. Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.

John Coleman

#58. However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever.
Sincerity. It was so difficult , by definition, to fake.

Brandon Sanderson

#59. A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance.

Michael Demon Calce

#60. The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

Tony Snow

#61. he was an awesome marine as a person he is a scam i know he try to scam me out 4800 but he didn't get nothing

Nathaniel R. Helms

#62. Landsman has put a lot of work into the avoidance of having to understand concepts like that of the eruv, but he knows that it's a typical Jewish ritual dodge, a scam run on God, that controlling motherfucker.

Michael Chabon

#63. Much of the DOE green energy lending program is a scam. It is a slush fund of pork for paying back campaign contributors.

Dick Morris

#64. The sight of Ethan - of Scam, since this was a mission - sent a trickle of annoyance down Crash's spine. Not like all the little itches of tech, just the ever-present need to punch him in the face.

Scott Westerfeld

#65. Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.

Russ Feingold

#66. My dad used to love Steely Dan, the Stones, Jethro Tull and all that. There was always Steely Dan going in my dad's car, but I remember The Royal Scam in particular because it has 'Kid Charlemagne' on it.

St. Vincent

#67. The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

James Altucher

#68. There were always blind, deaf, or handicapped people hanging around the brothers, and I figured it was evidence that they either had a soft, compassionate side or were running some kind of mysterious scam.

Mick Mars

#69. My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

Aldrich Ames

#70. The basis of any scam is telling people what they want to hear. If something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Lee Child

#71. Our identity in the world must change from Scam India to Skill India.

Narendra Modi

#72. Global Warming: It is a hoax. It is bad science. It is high-jacking public policy. It is the greatest scam in history.

John Coleman

#73. But it's still a big fight to get the work you're really excited about onto shelves. And past that, convincing someone to pay you to do the work that you are most excited about is more than a trick, it's a fucking scam of a magic trick.

Brandon S. Graham

#74. The drug war is a total scam, prescription drugs kill 300K a year, while marijuana kills no one, but they spend billions/year 'fighting' it, because pot heads make for good little slaves to put into private prisons, owned by the banks who launder the drug money, and it's ALL DOCUMENTED.

Alex E. Jones

#75. It's time to ask why [the United States] is the only country in the world where we permit our children to be saddled with tens - sometimes hundreds - of thousands of dollars of debt before they begin to earn a penny.

F.H. Buckley

#76. And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.

Vann Chow

#77. I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

Aldrich Ames

#78. Diets are a scam.

Michael Moore

#79. Unpaid internships are worse than slavery," Gabby said. I looked at her, unsure of what she meant. "They make us work ridiculous hours, for free, and they make us do things an employee would do. It's a scam, and worse, they make you feel like they're doing YOU a favor. It's such mindfuckery.

Teresa Lo

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Jana Oliver

#81. There were no colonies on Earth. It was all a scam the Martians were using to con the rest of the universe. There had been no first contact. Her knees quivered, and all her muscles tensed. She was first contact.

Patricia Eimer

#82. Okay, fluoride in the water to help our teeth. Well, shouldn't that be the job of your mom and dad? To teach you how to brush your teeth and use mouth wash? What do we need the government to do it for? Clearly, what a scam. Fluoride in the water.

Jesse Ventura

#83. And the single action scam was dispensing cash like water gushing down Niagara Falls.

Joe Bruno

#84. Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.

Jose Antonio Carrillo

#85. The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

Jerry Brown

#86. I'm gay, it's all a big scam. My kids don't even know who their mother is.

Harry Connick Jr.

#87. Why just order a pizza, when you can get a restraining order for the delivery guys, make them come to you, sue them, and get all the profit?

Will Advise

#88. Well, you can try to rationalize it all you want, you can invent all kinds of noble-sounding pretexts, but in the end, a scam is a scam.

Haruki Murakami

#89. Whether or not he came to believe it - so many people, when they have a mission, come to believe something in a way that may have started out as a slogan. You know, L. Ron Hubbard, not to make a random comparison, started Scientology as a scam.

Alex Gibney

#90. Organic is probably the biggest scam of the century. For those of you unfamiliar with it, organic is a grocery term for more expensive.

Jim Gaffigan