Al Capone citáty

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

—  Al Capone

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

—  Al Capone

„Jsem podnikatel. Vydělal jsem své peníze dodáváním populární poptávky. Pokud poruším zákon, jsou moji zákazníci stejně vinní jako já.“

—  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/
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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

„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

„I want peace, and I will live and let live. I'm like any other man. I've been in this racket long enough to realize that a man in my game must take the breaks, the fortunes of war. I haven't had any peace of mind in years. Every minute I'm in danger of death.“

—  Al Capone

„I told them we are making a shooting gallery out of a great business and nobody is profiting by it.“

—  Al Capone

„Nobody was ever killed except outlaws, and the community is better off without them.“

—  Al Capone

„Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the Marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler, 'Get Capone!' I'm sick of it. As soon as I possibly can, I'll clear out of here.“

—  Al Capone

„A kidnapper is no better than a rat, and I don't approve of his racket because it makes the kidnaped man's wife and kiddies worry so much. I shall be glad to help Chicago in this emergency.“

—  Al Capone