Frank Abagnale famous quotes

03-28-2025

Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he churned that cream into butter and crawled out. Gentlemen, as of this moment, I am that second mouse.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Two #Gentleman #Buckets
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Husband #Father #Real
Im a true believer that you have a moral obligation to keep your employees honest, and that is why you have controls, so Im never tempted or put in a position where I could do something to defraud my employer.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Moral #Honest #Employers
When I was a child at sixteen, I was just a child. All sixteen year-olds are just children. As much as we like them to be adults, they are just children. And like all children, they need their mother, and they need their father. All children need their mother and their father. All children are entitled to their mother and their father.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Mother #Children #Father
Most people are fascinated by what I did as a teenager, but when I look back at my life, I don't think very much about those years. I was an opportunist and got away with things because I was very young, but I went to prison and came out and remade my life.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Teenager #Thinking #Years
If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Two #Forgery #Catch Me
The police can't protect consumers. People need to be more aware and educated about identity theft. You need to be a little bit wiser, a little bit smarter and there's nothing wrong with being skeptical. We live in a time when if you make it easy for someone to steal from you, someone will.
-- Frank Abagnale

#People #Police #Identity
If you happen to tell me where you were born, your date of birth and that kind of information, then I'm 98 percent of the way to stealing your identity.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Identity #Information #Way
I made a lot of exits through side doors, down fire escapes or over rooftops. I abandoned more wardrobes in the course of five years than most men acquire in a lifetime. I was slipperier than a buttered escargot.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Men #Fire #Doors
What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Technology #Today #Youth
I was always in the right place at the right time, always willing to take advantage of an opportunity.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Opportunity #Advantage #Right Time
Former police chief of Houston once said of me: â€œFrank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it â€˜U.R. Hookedâ€™ and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driverâ€™s license for identification.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Writing #Police #Houston
Banks are so protected from liability they would have to really do something that was their mistake in order for them to be liable for it. Banks don't look at signatures. They're processing millions of checks and they have very little liability.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Mistake #Order #Signatures
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

#Real #Men #People
Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Years #Important #Credit
The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Giving #Identity #Information
If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Believe #Creativity #Fool
I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Beach #Europe #Sensual
I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Cards #Use #Credit
Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Team #Winning #Yankees
It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Men #Important
Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards
-- Frank Abagnale

#Awards #Adults #Remember
When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Thinking #People #Looks
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.
-- Frank Abagnale

#School #Son #Boys
What bothered me most was their lack of style. I learned early that class is universally admired. Almost any fault, sin or crime is considered more leniently if there's a touch of class involved.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Class #Style #Faults
Every case involving cybercrime that I've been involved in, I've never found a master criminal sitting somewhere in Russia or Hong Kong or Beijing. It always ends up that somebody at the company did something they weren't supposed to do. They read an email, went to a website they weren't supposed to.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Russia #Email #Criminals
Criminals look at identity theft and say only 1 in 700 criminals gets convicted of it. And they look at check forgery and they know that for every 1,400 forgers arrested, only about 123 get convicted and about 26 go to jail. So the rewards are great, but the risks are very slim. So that's one of the reasons that make it very popular.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Jail #Risk #Identity
Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.
-- Frank Abagnale

#Dad #Men #Trying

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