Ponzi Quotes #2

“I kept up the bluff, hoping that I might eventually hit upon some workable plan to pay all of my creditors in full.” “To himself, Ponzi rationalized the difference between his company named the Securities Exchange Company and copycat upstarts: “Perhaps my activities were not entirely within the law,” he allowed. “But my intent was honest. I was in a critical position and I had fallen into it without any intention to do wrong. Now that I was in it, I was trying my hardest to pull myself out of it, without hurting my investors.”