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" 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
Think
Day
Father
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" 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. "
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True
You
" I make my home in Tulsa. "
Frank Abagnale
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Home
" I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa. "
Frank Abagnale
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" 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. "
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" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "
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" I kept a notebook, a surreptitious journal in which I jotted down phrases, technical data, miscellaneous information, names, dates, places, telephone numbers, thoughts, and a collection of other data I thought was necessary or might prove helpful. "
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Thought
Thoughts
Data
" One thing I've found is that if you educate and show people the risk, they will do something about it. "
Frank Abagnale
Will
You
One Thing
" 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. "
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Moment
Eye
Pilot
" The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity. "
Frank Abagnale
Enough
Alone
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" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "
Frank Abagnale
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Gain
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" If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am. "
Frank Abagnale
Who
Check
Lot
" I don't believe that a piece of paper will excuse my actions. In the end, only my actions will. "
Frank Abagnale
End
Believe
Will
" 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
" 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
" Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts. "
Frank Abagnale
Reconcile
Bank
Accounts
" I contend that there really are no more con men. There's no need for con men anymore. There's no need for the very sophisticated, suave guy, the well-dressed guy. Today, you steal with the computer from thousands of miles away - from China, from Libya, from Hong Kong. Your victim's never going to see you, so there's no need to be any of that. "
Frank Abagnale
Need
Today
Victim
" I use a credit card for everything - and I choose one of the ones which gives you money back. "
Frank Abagnale
Use
Money
Back
" It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals. "
Frank Abagnale
Information
Give
Easier
" People say that life is short, but it isn't short. It's very long. "
Frank Abagnale
Long
Life Is Short
Life
" The Internet can be used to hurt many people. "
Frank Abagnale
People
Used
Hurt
" Only one thing makes a man a man. He loves his wife, is faithful to her, and puts his wife and kids as the most important things in life. "
Frank Abagnale
Important
Life
Man
" I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did. "
Frank Abagnale
Memories
Back
You
" Every form of payment has some risk associated with it. "
Frank Abagnale
Every
Some
Payment
" If you look at any successful professional - a salesperson, a marketer, a real estate agent, a trader - they all have the same qualities as the con man. The only difference is that one side uses their talents in the right direction and the con man is taking the easy way out. "
Frank Abagnale
Man
Look
You
" 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
Picture
Amazing
Back
" 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
Away
Got
My Life
" At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000. "
Frank Abagnale
Rarely
Crime
Very
" 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
" By the time I had reached the age of 16, in the 10th grade, my parents, after 22 years of marriage, one day decided to get a divorce. "
Frank Abagnale
Time
Age
Day
" I speak at a lot of universities, and people are always worried about Facebook, and when I explain how to use it properly, they immediately go back and make those changes. "
Frank Abagnale
People
Always
Back