Financial Dishonesty Quotes

Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.

Managers that always promise to 'make the numbers' will at some point be tempted to make up the numbers.

Well, the truth is that a lot of people lie about their health, they lie about the finances, they lie about things at work, they lie about things.

Never use your own money. Steal a good idea and say it's your own. Do anything to get publicity. Remember that everybody can be bought.

The general systems of money management [today] require people to pretend to do something they can't do and like something they don't. It's a terrible way to spend your life, but it's very well paid.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for his own interest or against the wishes of its rightful owner, is a thief.

Women fake orgasms and men fake finances.

To try and nick a few quid off the income tax... Why? I am not into that. I don't need that.

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

65% of people say that cheating on your income tax is worse than cheating on your spouse. The other 35% were women.

What makes me angry is when people know what is right but have, over the years, attuned themselves to the fact that what they're doing, stealing money from government, is acceptable.

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.

I don't remember ever stealing things, but I suppose I was endlessly borrowing money off people.

Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.

If a person lies to you about what's in their bank account, they'll lie to you about other things as well.

This idea that you're a successful tough guy if you evade taxes and deceive the state has got to change.

Because cheating is easier when we can justify our behavior, people often cheat in small amounts: We can come up with an excuse for stealing Post-It notes, but it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000 from petty cash.

Over 70% of what are called corruption (cases), even by EFCC (Economic and Financial Crimes Commission) and other anti-corruption agencies, is not corruption, but common stealing.

It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

There is no real difference between a set of bank directors, who make and issue notes … which they deliberately promise to pay with a previous resolution not to pay, and a gang of fair, open, honest, counterfeiters.

There's only one thing you can do in bankruptcy: break your word, break your deals. It allows you to say to the small businesses, who have been catering lunches for you, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.' It allows you to go to the workers and say, 'Sorry, we're not paying you.'

I might go my whole life stealing money. I got paid to play basketball, which is a scam. I get paid to watch basketball, which is a scam.

To many in the global community, American business - especially our financial institutions - are seen as a bunch of thieves, and as the saying goes, 'There's no honor among thieves.'

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.