Bill

“Like a giant Ponzi scheme, profits depended on an unending source of associates entering at the bottom of the pyramid, funneling cash up the chain, and departing before making partner.”
― Cameron Stracher, Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair

“The daughter is the goddess, separately or together, of Infatuation, Mischief, Delusion and Blind Folly, rendering her victims “incapable of rational choice” and blind to distinctions of morality and expedience.”
― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

“Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.”
― William Shakespeare, Richard III

“I spent most of my dough on booze, broads and boats and the rest I wasted.”
― Elmore Leonard, LaBrava