As quoted in "Debriefing Mike Murphy" https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy (18 March 2016), by Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard
2010s
“High pressure salesmen focus on the short term incentives to outweigh the long term cons”
“Never do yourself, what you can con professionals into doing for you.”
“You’re working something, and I should have you arrested for impersonating a con man.”
Source: Windswept (2015), Chapter 16 (p. 195)
Source: Tracks: A Woman's Solo Trek Across 1700 Miles of Australian Outback
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1962), Ch. 22
“When bullying was needed it was generally understood that he could do it con amore.”
Source: Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White, Vol. 2 (1922), p. 13
Context: The British ambassador was Sir Robert Morier. He too was a strong character, though lacking apparently in some of General [der Infanterie] von Schweinitz's more kindly qualities. He was big, roughish, and at times so brusque that he might almost be called brutal. When bullying was needed it was generally understood that he could do it con amore.
