Markopolos Harry Quotes & Sayings

A super-sized fraud of this magnitude was bound to happen given the lack of regulation of these off-shore entities. — Harry Markopolos

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust. — Kazuo Ishiguro

I think allure is something around you, like a perfume or like a scent. It's like a memory ... it pervades. — Diana Vreeland

The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there. — Harry Markopolos

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

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

Certainly one of the most important things I learned is that numbers can be deceiving. There is a logic to mathematics, but there is also the underlying human element that must be considered. Numbers can't lie, but the people who create those numbers can and do. As so many people have learned, forgetting to include human nature in an equation can be devastating. — Harry Markopolos

For fifteen, maybe twenty minutes, she'd suspend her fierce judgment of the world and fall silent there. And when she did, a tiny space would clear in my head and I could think again. — Jenny Offill

How do you fight someone smarter than yourself?" Rand whispered. "The anser is simple. You make her think that you are sitting down across the table from her, ready to play her game. Then you punch her in the face as hard as you can. — Robert Jordan

Whatever is to come has to be faced alone and with as much strength one can muster. — Allen Drury

I don't know how I could have been more explicit. I gave them a roadmap and a flashlight, but they didn't go where I told them to go, they didn't look where I told them to look, they didn't tell the people I told them to call. — Harry Markopolos

Government has coddled, accepted, and ignored white collar crime for too long. It is time the nation woke up and realized that it's not the armed robbers or drug dealers who cause the most economic harm, it's the white collar criminals living in the most expensive homes who have the most impressive resumes who harm us the most. They steal our pensions, bankrupt our companies, and destroy thousands of jobs, ruining countless lives. — Harry Markopolos

I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view. — Harry Markopolos