My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.
A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities.
Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the armed robbers or drug dealers who cause the most economic harm, it's the white collar criminals living in the most expensive homes who have the most impressive resumes who harm us the most. They steal our pensions, bankrupt our companies, and destroy thousands of jobs, ruining countless lives.
I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.
I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told them to go, they didn't look where I told them to look, they didn't tell the people I told them to call.
We have to take personal responsibility. The government didn't do its job when the institutions needed to be held accountable. If you see something's wrong, you can't just turn the other way. The regulatory system was totally rotten from top to bottom.
Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme.
It occurred to me that building a company was the best way to align a group of people towards building something great. And its really. . . it's a good organizational structure where you can really reward people. If they're building something that's good, you can you work with partners and reward them if the product that you're developing work well. It's a good way to get the best people involved to build something very good.
The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has forgotten its source.
I think that when you are accused of being in bad taste it can be quite positive. You're challenging the notions of polite society. I'd like to put across the notion that bad taste is actually good for you.