Al Capone citáty

„S úsměvem můžete dojít daleko. Ještě dále můžete dojít s úsměvem a zbraní.“

—  Al Capone

„Jsem laskavý člověk, jsem laskavý ke všem, ale jestli ke mně nebudeš laskavý, pak bude laskavost poslední věc na kterou si vzpomeneš.“

—  Al Capone

„I'm a businessman. I've made my money supplying a popular demand. If I break the law, my customers are as guilty as I am.“

—  Al Capone

„It seems like I'm responsible for every crime that takes place in this country.“

—  Al Capone

„I'll go as deep in my pockets as any man to help any guy that needs help. I can't stand to see anybody hungry or cold or helpless.“

—  Al Capone

„You'd be surprised if you knew some of the fellows I've got to take care of.“

—  Al Capone

„I'm tired of gang murders and gang shootings. It's a tough life to lead. You fear death at every moment, and worse than death, you fear the rats of the game who'd run around and tell the police if you don't constantly satisfy them with money and favors.“

—  Al Capone

„You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.“

—  Al Capone

Misquoted in Forbes (6 October 1986), actually attributed to humorist Professor Irwin Corey (1953) http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/11/03/kind-gun/
Disputed
Varianta: You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

„People who respect nothing dread fear. It is upon fear, therefore, that I have built up my organization. But understand me correctly, please. Those who work with me are afraid of nothing. Those who work for me are kept faithful, not so much because of their pay as because they know what might be done with them if they broke faith.“

—  Al Capone

„I have spent the best years of my life giving people the lighter pleasures, helping them have a good time, and all I get is abuse, the existence of a hunted man.“

—  Al Capone

As quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie, p. 26

„Do I do business with Canadian racketeers? I don't even know what street Canada is on.“

—  Al Capone

As quoted in Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada (2009) by Stephen Schneider, chapter Five, p. 206 http://books.google.bg/books?id=ZO8jKSn25DAC&printsec=frontcover&hl=bg

„I violate the Prohibition law, sure, Who doesn't? The only difference is that I take more chances than the man who drinks a cocktail before dinner and a flock of highballs after it.“

—  Al Capone

„Once you're in the racket, you're always in it. The parasites will trail you, begging for money and favors, and you can never get away from them no matter where you go.“

—  Al Capone

„It's hard, dangerous work, aside from any hate at all, and when a fellow works hard at any line of business he wants to go home and forget about it. He don't want to be afraid to sit near a window or an open door.“

—  Al Capone

„Union members look at dues the same way they look at taxes: just something you got to pay the thieves who run things.“

—  Al Capone

„There's always some wiseacre who stands in the wings and criticizes. You've got two choices. You either buy these wiseacres off by giving them jobs… or you scare them off. If they don't scare, you take them in the alley. When they get out of the hospital, if they still want to squawk, you get rid of them.“

—  Al Capone

„Things people know about amuse them. They like to laugh over them and make jokes. When a speakeasy is raided, there are a few hysterical people, but the general mass are light hearted. On the other hand, do you know any of your friends who'd go into fits of merriment if they feared being taken for a ride?“

—  Al Capone

„I don't want to end up in the gutter punctured by machine gun slugs.“

—  Al Capone

„What do you want to do, get yourself killed before you are thirty? You'd better get some sense while a few of us are left alive.“

—  Al Capone