Charles Ponzi quotes

Charles Ponzi quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I landed in this country with $2.50 in cash and $1 million in hopes, and those hopes never left me,”
-- Charles Ponzi

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“I went looking for trouble, and I found it.”
-- Charles Ponzi

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“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”
“God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!”
“Into my hear an air that kills through yon far country blows what are those blue remembered hills what spires,what farms are those? that is the land of lost content I can see it shining plain the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.”
“I think in this country we're committed to developing plays, and many plays I've seen have been rewritten too much. The scenes are tight, the play ends at the right time, you know exactly what the scene is about, but it seems flat; you can almost see that too many hands have been on the play. The individual voice is gone.”
“The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.”
“I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash and carry, carry me back to Old Virginia, I'll even 'hari-kari' if you show me how, but I will not carry a gun!”
“We can guarantee cash benefits as far out and at whatever size you like, but we cannot guarantee their purchasing power.”
“If our financial industry regarded security the way the health-care sector does, I would stuff my cash in a mattress under my bed.”

Source : "Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers, researchers say" by Robert O'Harrow Jr., www.washingtonpost.com. December 25, 2012.
“And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.”
“Home ownership was the fig leaf for the rise in subprime lending. But that was really about cash-out refinancings, not buying homes.”

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