Uzodinma Iweala Quotes

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

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

Life is a racket. Writing is a racket. Sincerity is a racket. Everything's a racket.

It's hard finding people you trust or who aren't going to take your money. Everyone wants to get a piece of whatever you're doing. It's a nightmare.

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.

The best, very best scammers will always ask for your advice. This is their favorite technique. It makes them vulnerable. It flatters your ego.

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

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.

They lied, they cheated, they stole, they had the power to do it and they did.

One of the things about the con artist lifestyle is that all the romance is sort of sloppy and fast and loose.

Nearly everyone who chooses to work for Donald Trump is disreputable in one way or another; Ali Baba didn't find 40 wise men in the cave. But to label everyone in Trumpworld a grifter misses important subtleties. It conflates grifters and grafters, and it ignores the crucial distinction between the two.

Just like my Uncle Charlie used to say, just before he sprung the trap: He said, "You can't cheat and honest man! Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump!

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

I am disappointed in the music business, I feel like a lot of people in the music business are phoney, there's a lot of people who will abuse and take my kindness.

I am in no mood to be deceived any longer by the crafty devil and false character whose greatest pleasure is to take advantage of everyone.

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

Dishonesty is so grasping it would deceive God himself, were it possible.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

It's morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.

Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.

We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp.

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

Corruption never has been compulsory.

There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful.