Always loved this quote from the movie, The Usual Suspects.
“He is supposed to be Turkish. Some say his father was German. Nobody believed he was real. Nobody ever saw him or knew anybody that ever worked directly for him, but to hear Kobayashi tell it, anybody could have worked for Soze. You never knew. That was his power. The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist. One story the guys told me — the story I believe — was from his days in Turkey. There was a petty gang of Hungarians that wanted their own mob. They realized that to be in power you didn’t need guns or money or even numbers. You just needed the will to do what the other guy wouldn’t. After a while they come to power, and then they come after Soze. He was small time then, just running dope, they say…”
The shit hit the fan, however, when people realized he did. Today, it’s easy to pull the wool over someone’s eyes for a short period of time, but you can’t do it for the long haul. If you lack skills, experience, money, etc. you can only hide it for so long.
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