Quotes about Financial Wrongdoing

Josiah Stamp

Banking was conceived in iniquity and born in sin.

Theodore Roosevelt

Malefactors of great wealth

Roosevelt was on a crusade to eliminate the vicious monopolies and trusts of the time. The number of terms he used to describe them was large but this has become the most memorable and most frequently quoted. See {585244} for some of the other terms he used. While this phrase was original with FDR, his relative, Theodore Roosevelt, used the term “malefactors” in a similar meaning in {585244}.

Jose Mujica

What was my great sin? To have revealed the private property of the bank - well if this is being a criminal, then maybe I'm a great criminal.

Matt Taibbi

Over the years, many in the public have become numb to news of financial corruption, partly because too many of these stories involve banker-on-banker crime.

Dan Rather

These guys [the Catholic church] make Enron look like altar boys.

Bethany McLean

Before Enron, I think people were a bit more naive about the way things worked, and I think Enron pulled the curtain back on unsavoury practices that turned out to be a lot more widespread.

William Allan White

The subconscious moral sense or the people has come to a distinct realization of the fact that crimes are possible in what we call high finance as they are in lower quarters.

Dan Totheroh

When a man gets his money in bad ways, when he sees the better course and takes the worse, then the devil's in his heart, and that fixes him.

Financial Wrongdoing Quotes