“If you can't avoid being deported, scarper now before it's too late. Slip away at night. ... Put on your false nose. Dye your hair. See a plastic surgeon. Become someone else and run, run, run.” - Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs (allegedly giving advice to Australian fugitive Christopher Skase)

“I have built my enterprise on the firmest ground that can be found - the foolishness of people.” - Ivar Krueger

“I landed in this country with $2.50 in  cash and $1 million in hopes, and  those hopes never left me.” - Charles Ponzi