Al Capone Quotes

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.

When I sell liquor, it’s called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it’s called hospitality.

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

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

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

I have built my organization upon fear.

Vote early and vote often.

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble

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.’

They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

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

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

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

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 only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.