Quotes & Sayings About Madoff

You have a guy like Bernie Madoff literally steal $80 billion, you know, AIG steal hundreds of billions, Goldman Sachs. Crime has changed so much, and to really do a movie with, like, drug dealers or drug smugglers is kind of almost quaint at this point. — Adam McKay

In today's regulatory environment, it's virtually impossible to violate rules. — Bernard Madoff

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others. — Kevin Bacon

I'm still trying to write. I wrote a play a few years ago, so I'm trying to start writing again. The play was called The Commons Of Pensacola. It was at MTC [Manhattan Theatre Club] with Sarah Jessica Parker and Blythe Danner. It was kind of like a riff on Ruth Madoff. — Amanda Peet

All one great big lie. — Bernard Madoff

The nature of any human being, certainly anyone on Wall Street, is 'the better deal you give the customer, the worse deal it is for you'. — Bernard Madoff

You had a lot of novice investors who got into the market looking for easy money, without any regard to the fundamentals. These stocks were running on fumes. — Bernard Madoff

Bernie Madoff is probably more nuanced then I'm giving him credit for, but I just couldn't get under his skin. — Patrick DeWitt

Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare. — John Stossel

Surely I'm not the only person to ask the obvious question: How different, really, is Mr. Madoff's tale from the story of the investment industry as a whole? — Paul Krugman

Wall Street is one big turf war. By benefiting one person you are disadvantaging another person. — Bernard Madoff

I look at the newspapers, and I cannot believe most of the stories I read. Bernie Madoff, who actually screwed millions of people for billions of dollars, it's just unbelievable what he got away with and how long it took for him to be exposed. A guy like that should be hanged. — Alan Abel

Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone. — Ted Koppel

Life, they showed me, could go on no matter how unpredictable, no matter how unfair. — Stephanie Madoff Mack

Today, basically, on Wall Street, the big money is made by taking risks. — Bernard Madoff

The federal government has made explicit and implicit promises to millions of people, but has put no money aside in order to keep those promises. Some of you may wonder where Bernie Madoff got the idea for his Ponzi scheme. Clearly he was studying federal entitlement policy. — John C. Goodman

The person that is buying a share of stock is convinced he knows something that the other person who's selling it to him does not know. There's no zero sum game in Wall Street. — Bernard Madoff

There are tons of examples of U.K. and European mistakes. A classic one is pensions. That's obviously not an America-specific thing. The British and European economies are suffering under the weight of what is to come. The next great Ponzi scheme after Madoff is probably pensions. — Dambisa Moyo

I have ... spoken to the heads of various Wall Street equity derivatives trading desks and every single one of the senior managers I spoke with told me that Bernie Madoff was a fraud. Of course no one wants to take an undue career risk by sticking their head up ... The fewer people who know who wrote this report the better. I am worried about the personal safety of myself and my family. — Harry Markopolos

Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff-like callousness by the world's fisheries. — Daniel Pauly

For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff. — Addison Wiggin

It's a proprietary strategy. I can't go into it in great detail. — Bernard Madoff

Anyone else find it funny that Bernie Madoff's last name is a homophone of 'made-off'? — David C. Holley

Madoff Securities is the world's largest Ponzi scheme. — Harry Markopolos

The whole government is a Ponzi scheme. — Bernard Madoff

Some people are in positions of power, and when incentives go haywire, we are all human and it's easy to make mistakes. I am not saying everybody is Bernie Madoff. — Nicholas Jarecki

I'm the Bernie Madoff of this spider. — Cody Lundin