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Abagnale Quotes By Frank W. Abagnale

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, is the most respected, and probably the largest, commercial flight-training school in the nation, I was informed. It's the Notre Dame of the air. — Frank W. Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Steven Spielberg

I committed to directing 'Catch Me If You Can' not because of the divorce component, but principally because Frank Abagnale did things that were the most astonishing scams I had ever heard. — Steven Spielberg

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

I was just a guy who ran away from home at 16 because my parents were getting a divorce and the judge was making me choose which parent to live with. I didn't want to make that choice. I ended up in New York City. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

Technology breeds crime and we are constantly trying to develop technology to stay one step ahead of the person trying to use it negatively. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

The Internet is a wonderful thing, but it opens the door to many crimes, so you have to stay ahead of it. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank W. Abagnale

in my four months of legal cramming I'd learned the law is full of technicalities. Technicalities are what screw up justice. Wilcox — Frank W. Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

I think my wife understood from the day I met her how important she was to me and how important it was for me becoming a husband and a father. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

I use a shredder for bank statements and phone bills. Most people use ribbon shredders that cut things straight: we can put those back together in an hour. Look for a security microcut shredder, which cuts papers into confetti. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Steven Spielberg

I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years. — Steven Spielberg

Abagnale Quotes By Frank W. Abagnale

The second is observation. Observation is a skill that can be developed, but I was born blessed (or cursed) with the ability to pick up on details and items the average man overlooks. — Frank W. Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank W. Abagnale

during the first two interrogative sessions. Either I refused to answer or I would reply — Frank W. Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank W. Abagnale

A con artist's only weapon is his brain. — Frank W. Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

If you believe you have a foolproof system, you've failed to take into consideration the creativity of fools. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

I was always in the right place at the right time, always willing to take advantage of an opportunity. — Frank Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank W. Abagnale

Modesty is not one of my virtues. At the time, virtue was not one of my virtues. — Frank W. Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank W. Abagnale

A MAN'S ALTER EGO is nothing more than his favorite image of himself. — Frank W. Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank W. Abagnale

Of course, as someone once observed, there is no right way to do something wrong, — Frank W. Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank Abagnale

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

Abagnale Quotes By Frank W. Abagnale

nothing more than his favorite image of himself. The mirror in my room in the Windsor Hotel in Paris reflected my favorite image of me - a darkly handsome young airline pilot, smooth-skinned, bull-shouldered and immaculately groomed. Modesty is not one of my virtues. — Frank W. Abagnale

Abagnale Quotes By Frank W. Abagnale

Former police chief of Houston once said of me: "Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it 'U.R. Hooked' and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver's license for identification. — Frank W. Abagnale