57 Con Quotes for You to Enjoy

Con men look for human frailty to exploit. This is most often greed. Trump found a different vice: anger. The emotional are always the most susceptible to manipulation. Pamela Meyer

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One of the most interesting things about the cognitive theory is the idea that anger and interpersonal conflict ultimately result from a mental con. In other words, you're telling yourself things that aren't entirely true when you're fighting with someone. David D. Burns

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If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out. Frank Abagnale

You Man Real Estate Side Way Out Easy Easy Way Direction Only Only Difference Con Taking Talents Look Qualities Real Trader Same Any Difference Estate Agent Successful Uses Professional Right Right Direction

A tax cut to compensate for a tax increase is not a cut - it's a con. Tony Abbott

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There are pros and cons of experience. A con is that you can't look at the business with a fresh pair of eyes and as objectively as if you were a new CEO. Fire yourself on a Friday night and come in on Monday morning as if a search firm put you there as a turn-around leader. Can you be objective and make the bold change? Andrea Jung

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In the old days, a con man would be good looking, suave, well dressed, well spoken and presented themselves real well. Those days are gone because it's not necessary. The people committing these crimes are doing them from hundreds of miles away. Frank Abagnale

Good Man People Old Looking Gone Crimes Hundreds Those Would Would-Be Dressed Con Spoken Good-Looking Days Well Because Real Suave Doing Committing Old Days Them Themselves Miles Away Necessary Presented

Walking the floor at a con dressed as Chewbacca, you might as well be Bono. I mean it's ridiculous. People just walk up and grab you and hold you, because they love Chewbacca so much. Adam Savage

Love You People Walk Bono Dressed Con Well Because Up Grab Walking Just Hold Mean Might Much Ridiculous Floor

I usually do one con a year as a GoH and try to make the World Fantasy Convention for business purposes. Last year I went to a worldcon for the first time in two decades. I may go again this year. Alan Dean Foster

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That's the great thing about Comic Con - people are so accepting of one another. Alan Tudyk

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To some it is Napoleon, to some it is a philosophical struggle, to me it is allegro con brio. Arturo Toscanini

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Americans care a lot about authenticity, rightly so. Every election is a quest for the genuine article. This is precisely what makes the long con of American politics such a rich and mystifying study. Ben Fountain

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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

Beautiful Ugly Men Scams Wow About Main Cheap Con Were Years Lot Expensive Hollywood Livelihood Largely

It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one. Bozoma Saint John

I'm all about 'molde de arroz con picadillo'. Christina Milian

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I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe. Claire Messud

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The blessing that this film business has given me is that when I walk into a school I automatically have everyone's attention. They want to hear what the guy from 'Con Air' and 'Desperado' has to say. Danny Trejo

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The con movie is a little bit different where maybe we tell you what we're going to do but it never goes down the way you expect because there's so much double-crossing and cheats and lies going on along the whole way. Edward Burns

Actors are con men and con men are actors. Edward Burns

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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers. Gary Wolf

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It's an incredible con job when you think about it, to believe something now in exchange for something after death. Even corporations with their reward systems don't try to make it posthumous. Gloria Steinem

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