A Quote by William Wordsworth
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, 'Yes,' you know he is a crook.
The longer I live, the more I feel that the individual is not so much to blame - not even the worst individuals, not even the 'best' citizens - as the system of corruption which has grown up about us, and which rewards an honest man with a mere living and a crook with all the magnificence of our magnificent modern life.
An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.
Some article called me the most feared man in Silicon Valley. Good Lord! Why? My teenage boys got a kick out of it: 'Dad, how could this be true? You're not even the most feared person in this house.'
Me? Well, I don't know, I must go to a dictionary and learn what a crook is. I've never been a crook.
One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.
I think there are a lot of honest people doing honest business on online auctions. But the control on these Web sites is pretty minimal.
Nixon was a crook, but he was our crook. He didn't have the KGB do the Watergate job.
I don't believe Spiro Agnew is a crook. If he was a crook, he'd still be in office.
I have said that the modern man, and especially the modern American, however much 'know-how' he may have, has very little 'know-what'
Most of the people I came across in the finance and business world were honest people, doing the best for their staff and for their family. But I encountered many who weren't.
Johnny Miller is a very honest guy. That may have been to his detriment sometimes. On television, he's too honest. We talk about it a lot. Do you really need to be that honest? You know what I mean? But he's a good man. He's a good family man. He's got good values, and we're delighted to have him as our honoree.
A crook is a crook, and there's something healthy about his frankness in the matter. But any guy who pretends he is enforcing the law and steals on his authority is a swell snake. The worst type of these punks is the big politician. You can only get a little of his time because he spends so much time covering up that no one will know that he is a thief. A hard-working crook will-and can-get those birds by the dozen, but right down in his heart he won't depend on them-hates the sight of them.
The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.
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