65 Scam Quotes On Success In Life
These scam quotes will inspire you. Scam, a fraudulent or deceptive act or operation or a dishonest scheme; a fraud.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging scam quotes, scam sayings, and scam proverbs.
Best Scam Quotes
- “It’s morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.” ~ W. C. Fields
- “Who is going to believe a con artist? Everyone, if she is good.” ~ Andy Griffith
- “The money’s the same, whether you earn it or scam it.” ~ Bobby Heenan
-
“Curiosity pulls people into the scam.” ~ Frank Stallone
- “The basic scam in the Internet age is pretty easy even for the financially illiterate to grasp. It was as if banks like Goldman were wrapping ribbons around watermelons, tossing them out fiftieth-story windows, and opening the phones for bids. In this game you were a winner only if you took your money out before the melon hit the pavement.” ~ Matt Taibbi
- “The value of money is a scam perpetrated by those who have it over those who don’t” ~ Karen Joy Fowler
- “Our identity in the world must change from Scam India to Skill India.” ~ Narendra Modi
-
“They were a people so primitive they did not know how to get money, except by working for it.” ~ Joseph Addison
- “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
- “Cats have a scam going – you buy the food, they eat the food, they go away; that’s the deal.” ~ Eddie Izzard
- “It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it.” ~ John Coleman
-
“The real sin with Social Security is that it’s a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.” ~ Tony Snow
- “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
- “Wall Street’s favorite scam is pretending that luck is skill.” ~ Ronald Ross
- “Being an artist is supposed to be a scam, not a career.” ~ Wade Guyton
-
“I think one of the biggest scams in law enforcement is the monitor.” ~ Raymond Kelly
- “I think it’s an American curse that most of us think we are special. … everyone believes themselves to be superior to the majority of the population in some way. Sometimes it’s their looks, other times their perceived sex appeal (often in obvious defiance of their looks), and other times it is their real or imagined talent for acting, writing, painting or banging on the drums. And because people are so susceptible to flattery, there exists an entire industry made up of scam artists whose sole goal is to fleece the flatterable.” ~ Fay Faron
- “I was a scam artist in high school for a while.” ~ Scott Caan
- “There’s people trying to tell me what to do, but I’m not like some marketing scam.” ~ Sky Ferreira
-
“As I’ve said before, free money scams are a problem.” ~ Matthew Lesko
- “Therefore, if we are a Nation of laws and a Nation of immigrants, immigration should occur within a legal framework, not through the machinations of illegal schemes and scams that threaten our national security.” ~ J. D. Hayworth
- “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
- “There should be a class on drugs. There should be a class on sex education-a real sex education class-not just pictures and diaphragms and ‘un-logical’ terms and things like that…..there should be a class on scams, there should be a class on religious cults, there should be a class on police brutality, there should be a class on apartheid, there should be a class on racism in America, there should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not, there are classes on gym, physical education, let’s learn volleyball.” ~ Tupac Shakur
-
“Herbalife: the customers are fictitious, the business opportunity is a scam, the university degree is a fraud.” ~ Bill Ackman
- “Donald Trump is 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
- “We need a Skilled India but Congress has created a Scam India in the last 10 years.” ~ Narendra Modi
- “If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.” ~ Eliezer Yudkowsky
-
“The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.” ~ James Altucher
- “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
- “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
- “The government doesn’t really prosecute for polygamy anymore, but a lot of the arrests are of groups supporting themselves through welfare scams or for child abuse. So that was all I’d really heard about polygamists.” ~ Jeanne Tripplehorn
-
“Cake baking has to be, however innocently, one of the great culinary scams: it implies effort, it implies domestic prowess; but believe me, it’s easy.” ~ Nigella Lawson
- “Through it all, this wild life on and off the road , through Jordanian deserts , Spanish islands, German prisons, Caribbean tax scams, halls of fame,wine, women, and all the drugs under the sun – one constant companion has never abandoned me . My first true love : singing Its been the savior of many poor boy, and God I know I’m one” ~ Eric Burdon
- “Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers.” ~ Ben Stein
- “I rarely use the internet for research, as I find the process cumbersome and detestable. The information gained is often untrustworthy and couched in execrable prose. It is unpleasant to sit in front of a twitching screen suffering assault by virus, power outage, sluggish searches, system crashes and the lack of direct human discourse.” ~ Annie Proulx
-
“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
- “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
- “A lot of hackers set up scam sites. They can impersonate a site like PayPal, for instance.” ~ Michael Demon Calce
- “In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.” ~ Matt Taibbi
-
“Wind is one of the greatest scams of the modern age.” ~ Robert Bryce
- “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
- “I committed to directing ‘Catch Me If You Can’ not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard.” ~ Steven Spielberg
- “The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase “ill-gotten” might have been specially invented. 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
-
“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
- “The Gong Show was the greatest scam of all time. It was simple: We wanted to do a talent show. There weren’t any venues for acts back then. We were gonna have a show of new, fresh, good acts. But we couldn’t find any; they were all lousy. So rather than throw away the idea, I said, “Let’s reverse it. Let’s do lousy acts.” Now, is that a scam? I’m telling you.” ~ Chuck Barris
- “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
- “The war on drugs was never meant to be won. Instead, it will be prolonged as long as possible in order to allow various intelligence operations to wring the last few hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit profits from the global drug scam; then defeat will have to be declared. “Defeat” will mean, as it did in the case of the Vietnam War, that the media will correctly portray the true dimensions of the situation and the real players, and that public revulsion at the culpability, stupidity and venality of the Establishment’s role will force a policy review.” ~ Terence McKenna
-
“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
- “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
- “I think institutions will inevitably substitute a rite or a ritual for the authentic, for the real McCoy, because then priests can control the pipeline to god, and the parishioner can approach with offerings. But if everybody can have a pipeline to deity, why then the whole priest scam is put out of business.” ~ Terence McKenna
- “They’ve been changing the cry from “global warming” to “climate change” because there’s so little evidence there’s actually any warming going on. I believe that as little as a decade from now, global warming will be recognized as one of the greatest swindles in world history. It has so little scientific basis, it can only rationally be considered a political scam.” ~ Doug Casey
-
“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
- “My view on global warming is that it’s a gigantic financial scam to funnel money to these countries that think they ostensibly are going to use to improve conditions in their country, environmentally and so on, but officials use – I guess apparently Tiger Woods did – to hire hookers, ride around in limos and in cases of some of these diplomats and some of these countries buy cocaine.” ~ Don Imus
- “Find Dad Bust Holy Water Scam Save the World Buy Groceries Do Laundry” ~ Jana Oliver
- “The Senate was holding hearings on deceptive sweepstakes practices. These companies target the elderly, making them think they’re going to get a bunch of money, when in reality they never see any of it. The most popular of these scams is called Social Security.” ~ Colin Quinn
-
“I’m gay, it’s all a big scam. My kids don’t even know who their mother is.” ~ Harry Connick, Jr.
- “Some years ago, someone had come up with the idea that the State should hold all Titles to vehicles, mailing a Certificate of Title to the ‘owners’. This created a legal fiction that the State owned the vehicles. Drivers were thus driving a State owned vehicle, mandating drivers must have a license to drive a State vehicle, which was false. The State reaped many millions with its drivers license scam, and began issuing heavy fines for not having a State license.” ~ Eustace Mullins
- “Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.” ~ Drew Carey
- “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
-
“Climate change is a big scam for a lot of people to make a lot of money.” ~ Donald Trump
- “I want to send a clear message to every board room, every executive suite across America, if you scam your customers, exploit your many employees, pollute our environment, or rip off taxpayers, we will find ways to hold you accountable.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “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
-
“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
- “Madoff’s scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.” ~ John Stossel
- “I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they’re saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you’re going to live forever, you’re going to go to some other plain where you’re going to be so happy, you’ll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me.” ~ Stephen King
