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“A job is the ultimate pyramid scheme.”

“You will meet people who believe all network marketing opportunities are pyramid schemes. Why spend all your time trying to convince them otherwise when there are legions of people who are open to what you have?”

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Book:How to build a multi-level money machine: the science of network marketing

Source: How to build a multi-level money machine: the science of network marketing

“New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters.”

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Book:Babyhood

Source: Babyhood

“It is a certainty that Herbalife is a pyramid scheme. We believe it's harming a population of low-income, principally Hispanic people in the U.S. to benefit a handful of super wealthy people at the top of the pyramid.”

People Believe Benefits Lows Population Income Certainty Wealthy Schemes Handful Pyramids Hispanic Low Income Pyramid Schemes Herbalife

Author:Bill Ackman

“I think the thing you're seeing now with the music industry is that the people who have tight-knit communities are now able to really hold each other up because of the internet tools. And the really top-down pyramid scheme of major labels and typical superstars isn't sustainable anymore because the system has collapsed.”

People Thinking Able Community Seeing Industry Internet Majors Tools Labels Schemes Typical Pyramids Music Industry Superstar Top Down Pyramid Schemes

Author:Amanda Palmer

“Capitalism is the only engine credible enough to generate mass wealth. I think it's imperfect, but we're stuck with it. And thank God we have that in the toolbox. But if you don't manage it in some way that incorporates all of society, if everybody's not benefiting on some level and you don't have a sense of shared purpose, national purpose, then it's just a pyramid scheme.”

Ifs Thinking Way Enough Purpose Wealth Levels Mass Capitalism Stuck Manage Thank God Engines Imperfect Schemes Pyramids Credible Toolbox Pyramid Schemes

Author:David Simon

“They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.”

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Book:Flight Behaviour

Source: Flight Behaviour

“Organized religion: The world's largest pyramid scheme.”

Thinking World Atheist Organized Schemes Pyramids Organized Religion Pyramid Schemes

Author:Bernard Katz

“The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.”

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Author:Joe Heck

“When asked if direct sales is a pyramid scheme. My reply is a corporation has only one person at the top.”

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Author:Donald Trump

“Rejection is good. Putting others ahead of self, giving things away. Success, money, power, fame, happiness, friends; any kind of pleasure - giving it all away, in the pyramid scheme of life, with the knowledge that everything will be returned, and being satisfied with that knowledge; not with the actual return of things, but the idea of the return of things. There is death.”

Giving Kind Ideas Self Pleasure Return Fame Satisfied Rejection Schemes Pyramids Money Power Self Giving Success Money Giving It All Pyramid Schemes

Book:Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel

Source: Eeeee Eee Eeee: A Novel