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

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.

She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so.

The bonds of family bind us up, support us, help us. And they are also a bond from which it is difficult, perhaps impossible to extricate oneself.

One cannot equate "capitalism" and "democracy.

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

Before enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water. After enlightenment, chopping wood and carrying water.

If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.

Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?

All through my career I've done what I can to discover new talent and give them a start.

Disfranchisement means inability to make, shape, or control one's own circumstances... . That is exactly the position of women in the world of work today; they cannot choose.