I would steal lunch money from school kids, perhaps, or maybe shoplift tennis balls, but nothing bigger than that. I wouldn't be able to sleep afterward, but that's another story. Were I so inclined, I could not support myself with a life of crime. 
Not like, say, "executives" over at Fannie Mae, "the largest buyer and guarantor of home mortgages in the country," based on an Associated Press story. "According to regulators, Fannie Mae in 1998 improperly put off accounting for $200 million in expenses to future periods so executives could collect $27 million in bonuses." Fannie Mae, "the government-sponsored company" is struggling "to emerge from an $11 billion accounting scandal."
All the experts tell us to think big, to envision ourselves being wildly successful. I guess that’s what they mean. Why steal tennis balls when you can take $27 million? Or your fair share of an $11 billion "accounting" error? Why, indeed.
