Cost Quote by Bruno Schulz

“The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less…

— David Foster Wallace

“Man may deceive his fellow-men, deception may follow deception, and the children of the wicked one may have power to seduce the foolish and…

— Oliver Cowdery

Man made money but money made him mad. Brilliant people do not make mistakes but mistakes make people brilliants

— Melchor Lim

Suddenly absurdism wasn’t an intellectual abstraction, it was actually realism. You could see the way that wealth was begetting wealth, wealth was begetting comfort…

— George Saunders

“the government alleged that the company was little more than a pyramid scheme built upon misleading promises of riches to prospective distributors, many of…

— Jane Mayer

However a man who was honest and clever was always, ALWAYS more difficult to scam than someone who was both dishonest and clever. Sincerity.…

— Brandon Sanderson

The labours of men of genius, however erroneously directed, scarcely ever fail in ultimately turning to the solid advantage of mankind.

— Anonymous

As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration - said the genius who was 1% showman and 99% fraud.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The thespian is an impostor, but the paying crowd colludes fully in the fraud as they seek to leave real problems behind to indulge…

— Stewart Stafford

The most ingenious men continually pretend to condemn tricking--but this is often done that they may use it more conveniently themselves, when some great…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.

— Jean de la Bruyere