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" A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.' "
Frank Abagnale
Real Man
Want
Good
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" You have to believe in what you do. Take something you truly believe in and go about it in an honest way. "
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Go
Believe
Take
" I didn't sit outside the bank and plan. I just went in and ad libbed because I was so young. But I was smart enough to know I would absolutely get caught. "
Frank Abagnale
Smart
Know
Plan
" The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. "
Frank Abagnale
Enough
Alone
Information
" If you took a child in London and took their iPhone and took them somewhere else in the country, they'd probably not be able to find their way back. That's a shame. "
Frank Abagnale
Child
Find
Shame
" I was very blessed it was Steven Spielberg who made the movie. He was very much into the redemption side of the story. They asked him in an interview why he had owned the rights to this story for 20 years before he made the movie, and he said, 'I wanted to see what the real Frank Abagnale did with his life before I immortalised him on film.' "
Frank Abagnale
Story
Blessed
Interview
" What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. "
Frank Abagnale
Crime
Youth
Easier
" The Internet can be used to hurt many people. "
Frank Abagnale
People
Used
Hurt
" There's no such thing as a foolproof system. That idea fails to take into account the creativity of fools. "
Frank Abagnale
System
Creativity
Fools
" While I was on an undercover assignment in Texas, I met my wife, Kelly. "
Frank Abagnale
Undercover
Wife
Texas
" There is no technology today that cannot be defeated by social engineering. "
Frank Abagnale
Today
Defeated
Technology
" I never use debit cards. I only use credit cards. This way, if someone does get my account number... and charges $1 million, by federal law, my liability is zero. "
Frank Abagnale
Law
Credit
Never
" I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity. "
Frank Abagnale
Live
Crime
Enough
" You fight technology with technology, so you have to stay one step ahead of the criminal. It's very much a chess game - they make a move, you have to make a move. "
Frank Abagnale
Step
Fight
Game
" Had I been older, I would've never been able to pull it off because I would've analyzed it to death. When I was 16, there was no such thing as 'what if.' "
Frank Abagnale
What If
Been
Death
" 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
City
Parents
New York
" You cannot rely on the police, you cannot rely on the government, you cannot rely on the bank to protect you. "
Frank Abagnale
Government
Police
Bank
" I teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic. "
Frank Abagnale
FBI
Which
Teach
" 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
Real
People
Good
" Everything I have today was because of the love of a woman. "
Frank Abagnale
Woman
Today
Love
" You can sit in a room and create anything you want on a laptop. That's why the real con men are gone. "
Frank Abagnale
Create
Real
Want
" Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts. "
Frank Abagnale
Reconcile
Bank
Accounts
" I went from 198 pounds to 109 while I was in prison in France, and I had to tie my clothes on with rope. "
Frank Abagnale
Rope
Prison
Tie
" If I had the uniform on, you didn't doubt for a moment I was a pilot. No one ever blinked an eye if I tried to cash a cheque wearing that uniform. "
Frank Abagnale
Moment
Eye
Pilot
" People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long. "
Frank Abagnale
Long
Life Is Short
Life
" 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
Moral
True
You
" I wasn't a Pan Am pilot or any other kind of pilot. "
Frank Abagnale
Am
Pan
Other
" If you tell me your name and date of birth, that's all I need to steal your identity. "
Frank Abagnale
Birth
You
Need
" Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy. "
Frank Abagnale
Good
Joy
Love
" I would have thought technology would have made it harder to do what I did. "
Frank Abagnale
Thought
Did
Made
" A lot of people say I was brilliant. I wasn't. I was an opportunist: a young entrepreneur who saw things and took advantage. "
Frank Abagnale
People
Things
Say