Christopher Voss

There are three kinds of yeses. There's commitment, confirmation, and counterfeit. People are most used to giving the counterfeit yes because they've been trapped by the confirmation yes so many times. So the way you master no is understanding what really happens when somebody says 'no.' When yes is commitment, no is protection.

American Businessman

Jacqueline Novogratz

Sproxil will help combat the multi-billion dollar counterfeit drug market, empower customers, and give them the resources to make informed pharmaceutical purchasing decisions.

American Businesswoman

Marcus Tullius Cicero

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Roman Statesman

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them.

French Writer

Theodor W. Adorno

The culture industry not so much adapts to the reactions of its customers as it counterfeits them.

German Philosopher

Sydney J. Harris

Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.

American Journalist

Hosea Ballou

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

American Clergyman

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

American Poet

Homer

True friends appear less moved than counterfeit.

Greek Poet

Robert Jeffress

Homosexual marriage is counterfeit marriage.

Recognize 'counterfeit' items by looking for errors or differences from the original.

Detecting Fakes

Using or creating counterfeit items is illegal and linked to criminal activity.

Crime Associations

Counterfeit items often have poor quality compared to the real ones.

Quality Clues

Even a good counterfeit might feel different, like paper money's texture.

Subtle Differences

Counterfeits can sometimes be hard to spot without comparing to an authentic item.

Context Matters

Possessing counterfeits can carry legal risks, like fines or jail time.

Legal Consequences

Counterfeiting always involves the intent to deceive others.

Intention Matters

Counterfeiting often refers to creating fake documents, money, or signatures.

Forgery Specifics

Counterfeiting isn't just physical; digital items can be counterfeited too.

Digital Counterfeits

 Relief only comes when you turn the first corner and glance behind, and they're not standing there. But what our counterfeit polo shirt seller certainly didn't realize is that everything I'd seen and heard would result in a dawn raid on his house, him being woken out of bed by eight men on his doorstep and all his product seized.

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 Now, I don't want you to get the impression that the blockchain is the solution to everything, even though the media has said that it's going to end world poverty, it's also going to solve the counterfeit drug problem and potentially save the rainforest.

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 It's being used now to track where counterfeit drugs have been made, where banknotes have come from, to look at the provenance of antiques and see that they really did come from the place the seller said they did. And murder suspects have been tracked

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 If I take those medications, are they actually counterfeits?" And on and on. So for life in these settings, the dominant theme, the dominant feature of life, is the incredible vulnerability that people have to manage day in and day out,

Why civilians suffer...

 For times when you're not dealing with counterfeit masterminds, looking for simple visual cues will do. Make sure the portrait looks lifelike and not flat, the seal has perfectly even sawtooth points, the inked border is unbroken,

How to spot a...

 solution to clean the notes often a simple combination of water and vitamins only to discover the cash is all counterfeit it's the price to pay for doing business in the criminal world US currency is revamped every 7 to 10 years

Counterfeit Strategy PIPE...

 No. Again, no. I don't mean that for a moment. What I mean is the world holds me so tightly -- the good and the bad -- my own follies and weakness that even this counterfeit Venus

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 protective of its currency that it guards its security right down to the specific fibers that comprise each bill US currency may be the most counterfeited money in the world

What's Inside Your Paper...

 The illegal wildlife trade is the fourth largest illegal trade in the world. Behind counterfeiting, drugs and human trafficking.