A New Thread: "Classic Mobster Quotes" ....

An insightful observation from legendary mafioso, Francesco (Frank Costello) Castiglia…..“Nobody gives it to you. You have to go out and take it!”

"Luck is the residue of hard work" - Charlie Luciano

My favorite: Anthony Cantalupo, president of a real estate company that "employed" Joe Columbo as a $20k/year "salesman," told a crime commission that his star "salesman" "...has the sincerest group of clients. They don't try to cheat him out of his commissions."

"When I sell liquor, they call it bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on silver trays on Lake Shore Drive, they call it hospitality." - Alphonse (Scarface Al) Capone

" I didnt do it, it was the black guy".

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

“There’s no such thing as good money or bad money. There’s just money.” — Salvatore (Lucky Luciano) Lucania

"I'm in the Gotti family; my wife's the boss."

John Gotti when questioned by reporters if he was the boss of the Gambino crime family.

"We don't break our captains, we kill them" Alan Longo (Genovese Family)

"A little violence never hurt anyone" Lefty Ruggiero (Bonnano)

“I’ve graduated from ten universities of hard knocks, and I’ve learned the definition of a ‘racketeer’ is anyone who attempts to accumulate wealth, power and prestige, at the expense of entrenched wealth, power and prestige. - The iconic...the one and only...Francesco Saverio (Frank Costello) Castiglia

Another one from Frank Costello during the Kefauver hearings : "Paid my tax"

LOL.

U.S. Senate Committee: "What can you say that you ever did for your country?".... Frank: "Paid my tax!"

"I never got on my knees for any Christian" - Meyer Lansky

"Don't let your tongue be your worst enemy." - John (Sonny) Franzese

"We're bigger than U.S. Steel" - Meyer (The Little Man) Lansky

"You know, if you have a barrel of apples and one of them is rotten, it has to be removed or it'll touch and ruin the rest of the apples." - Vito Genovese (in his prison cell with soldier Joe Valachi, subtly letting Valachi know he’s marked for death.)

“I’ve graduated from ten universities of hard knocks, and I’ve learned the government’s definition of a ‘racketeer’ is anyone who attempts to accumulate wealth, power and prestige, at the expense of entrenched wealth, power and prestige. - The iconic, one and only, Francesco (Frank Costello) Castiglia

"We only kill each other." - Bugsy Siegel

"If you wouldn't have drunk it, I wouldn't have brought it in." - Moe Dalitz, explaining to Kefauver subcommittee why he was a rumrunner during Prohibition.

"When you lose your money, you lose nothing. When you lose your health, you lose something. But when you lose your character, you lose everything." - Meyer Lansky

"Can you think that the mafia, camorra, 'ndrangheta can exist without the support of state institutions? They would remain street thugs."

Carmine Schiavone

“Judges, lawyers and politicians have a license to steal. Us, we don’t need one.” ~ Carlo Gambino

Love this quote

"No one will ever kill me. They wouldn't dare." ~ Carmine (Lilo) Galante

"I hate a liar more than I hate thief. A thief is only after my salary, a liar is after my reality." - gangster quote directed to some of the psychopaths who in turn talk to themselves and invent stuff just so they can get money through paywalls and YT views.

"I never lie to anybody, because I don't fear anybody...You only lie when you're afraid." ~ John Gotti

"A newspaper man once wrote an article that I had $300 million dollars. Well, I wish I had a million dollars." ~ Meyer Lansky

“My uncle always told me, you always have to use your brains in this thing, and you always have to use the gun” ~ Philip (Crazy Phil) Leonetti

Too bad you never had any relatives advising you to use your brains !!!

"Other kids are brought up nice and sent to Harvard and Yale. Me? I was brought up like a mushroom." ~ Frank Costello