Al Capone Quotes

Be careful who you call your friends. I’d rather have four quarters than one hundred pennies.

A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.

In this life all that I have is my word and my balls and I do not break them for nobody.

I would rather be rich affluent and greedy and go to hell when I die, than live in poverty on this earth.

Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business.

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.

I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.

Hell must be a pretty swell spot, because the guys that invented religion have sure been trying hard to keep everybody else out.

You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.

You accomplish more with a smile, a handshake, and a gun than you do with just a smile and a handshake.

They can't collect legal taxes from illegal money.

I am just a businessman, giving the people what they want.

This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

Capitalism is the legitimate racket of the ruling class.

We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality.

Now I know why tigers eat their young.

You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.

I am sick and tired of publicity. I want no more of it. It puts me in a bad light. I just want to be forgotten.

Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.

Once in the racket you're always in it.

I have built my organization upon fear.

Vote early and vote often.

Public service is my motto.

It's a racket. Those stock market guys are crooked.

All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

I don't even know what street Canada is on.

Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.

They've hung everything on me except the Chicago fire.

My rackets are run on strictly American lines and they're going to stay that way.

you'll accomlish more with a kind word and a gun, than you will with a kind word alone.

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.