Broadway Quote by Al Kooper

Crooks are early adopters.

— Craig Newmark

“an aristocracy come to power, convinced of its own disinterested quality, believing itself above both petty partisan interest and material greed. The suggestion that…

— David Halberstam

The Gilded Age robber barons - the Goulds, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans and Rockefellers - did quite well under laissez-faire. Most of the rest…

— Ben Fountain

“We meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corruption dominates the ballot box, the…

— Howard Zinn

We've had crooks from the beginning of time... it's always very interesting and troubling why good people do bad things.

— Henry Paulson

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

— Charlie Chaplin

Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world.

— Orson Welles

But that's not how most of the people mentioned in this book became wealthy. Most of them became wealthy by being well connected and…

— Charles Ferguson

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production…

— Ray Dalio

Rich people are so eccentric, and I don't think people really realize. Especially by the turn of the century, they were living like rappers,…

— Riki Lindhome

We, as black people, we have a lot of crooks.

— Charles Barkley

I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by…

— Astra Taylor