Al Capone Quotes

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

Al Capone

• Business
• Call
• Racketeering

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

Al Capone

• Country
• Crime
• Responsible

Prohibition has made nothing but trouble.

Al Capone

• Trouble
• Made
• Prohibition

I have built my organization upon fear.

Al Capone

• Fear
• Organization
• Built

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

Al Capone

• People
• Want
• Giving

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

Al Capone

• Pretty
• Religion
• Hell

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

Al Capone

• Smile
• Accomplish
• Handshake

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

Al Capone

• Opportunity
• Capitalism
• Hang On

The country wanted booze and I organized it. Why should I be called a public enemy?

Al Capone

• Country
• Organized
• Booze

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

Al Capone

• Smile
• Gun
• Far

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

Al Capone

• Die
• Poverty
• Rich

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

Al Capone

• Popular
• Demand
• Supply

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

Al Capone

• Friends
• Careful
• Call

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

Al Capone

• Life
• Word
• Balls

They can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

Al Capone

• Money
• Taxes
• Illegal

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.

Al Capone

• Want
• Forgotten
• Publicity