"My favorite pre-Ponzi schemer was known as '520 Percent Miller' because he promised 10 percent returns a week, or 520 percent a year. Of course he was just using new investors' money to pay old investors, and soon he was on the lam."

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Source : "The Color of Money". Live discuss with Michelle Singletary, www.washingtonpost.com. January 29, 2009.

Mitchell Zuckoff

#Years Quotes #Pay Quotes #Return Quotes

“Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.”
“No people will tamely surrender their Liberties, nor can any be easily subdued, when knowledge is diffused and virtue is preserved. On the Contrary, when People are universally ignorant, and debauched in their Manners, they will sink under their own weight without the Aid of foreign Invaders.”
“Doomed to total failure in a deaf world of ignorance and indifference, he inexorably kept on cutting out his diamonds, his dazzling diamonds, of whose mines he had a perfect knowledge.”
“Sometimes the most important things that we do are things we cannot measure.”
“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.”
“And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.”
“Take action every day - some small dose at a time.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 07, 2016
“I don't actually listen to much music since I need quiet to work.”

Source : "Author Revealed". Simonand & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.com.

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