Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" The Internet can be used to hurt many people. "
Frank Abagnale
People
Used
Hurt
Related Quotes:
" Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain. "
Frank Abagnale
Motivated
Gain
Financial
" Whether you're earning $7 an hour or $700,000 a year, it's very important to protect your credit rating. "
Frank Abagnale
You
Year
Credit
" The biggest thing that concerns me is when we start getting countries using cybercrime to shut down infrastructure, electricity, communications systems, the Internet, et cetera. "
Frank Abagnale
Internet
Down
Me
" We should be very concerned: if identity theft is so simple to do, what's to stop me from entering this country and assuming the identity of someone else for the sole purpose of living here illegally for terrorist reasons? That alone would be a concern. "
Frank Abagnale
Identity
Alone
Simple
" Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly. "
Frank Abagnale
Parents
Thought
Christmas
" We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics. "
Frank Abagnale
Coming
Ethics
Society
" If I check into a hotel, a lot of times, they know who I am. "
Frank Abagnale
Who
Check
Lot
" Most people don't recognize me, but they know my name. TSA people rarely recognize my name, ironically, and they are the security people. "
Frank Abagnale
Me
Security
People
" I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it and blew the bulk of the bundle on fine threads, gourmet foods, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, fine wheels, and other sensual goodies. "
Frank Abagnale
Twice
Wheels
Sensual
" It is amazing the information we give away. We make it easier and easier for criminals. "
Frank Abagnale
Information
Give
Easier
" People care about others in their immediate network. "
Frank Abagnale
Others
Network
Care
" 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
" In all the years I've taught at the FBI Academy, I've only seen crime get easier, faster, and harder to detect. "
Frank Abagnale
Seen
Years
Only
" At the FBI, very rarely do they investigate crime under $100,000. "
Frank Abagnale
Rarely
Crime
Very
" I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours. "
Frank Abagnale
Information
You
Money
" 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 teach ethics at the FBI academy, which is ironic. "
Frank Abagnale
FBI
Which
Teach
" 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
" When I look back at my life now, I'm not amazed by what I did at 16 to 21. "
Frank Abagnale
Look
Amazed
Back
" Most people don't reconcile their bank accounts. "
Frank Abagnale
Reconcile
Bank
Accounts
" I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison. "
Frank Abagnale
Always
Going
Up
" It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again. "
Frank Abagnale
Start
Amazing
Problem
" 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
" 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
" Nothing has brought me more love, joy and peace than being a good husband and good daddy. "
Frank Abagnale
Good
Joy
Love
" What I did in my youth is hundreds of times easier today. Technology breeds crime. "
Frank Abagnale
Crime
Youth
Easier
" We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely. "
Frank Abagnale
Changes
Age
Grow
" If I wanted to lay down a baby con, I could say I was the product of a broken home. But I'd only be bum-rapping my parents. "
Frank Abagnale
Home
Parents
Baby
" One of the most popular scams is what they call account takeover. You write me a check, and I simply go online to a check-printing service and order 200 checks with your account information. "
Frank Abagnale
Information
Me
Go
" You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yourself through education. "
Frank Abagnale
Protect
Learn
You