Willie Sutton Quotes

I always knew I'd accomplish something very special - like robbing a bank perhaps.

I rob banks for a living, what do you do?

What do you want me to do, rob a bank?

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money!

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

There's a difference between criminals and crooks. Crooks steal. Criminals blow some guy's brains out. I'm a crook.

I never, in all my life, had anything whatever to do with robbing any bank in the state of Missouri.

I'm going to go back and find out where the money is. The money is not getting down there.

The best way to rob a bank is to own it.

Who knows what is really going on within a criminal enterprise? Criminals

Mostly, cybercriminals are motivated to commit crime for financial gain.

I mean why should somebody go steal and break the law to get all they can when there's always some law where you can be legal and get it all anyway!

Get your pockets dug from all your chemical bank ends caught him at the red light - on Putman Avenue and Franklin

Why do all your brilliant ideas involve felonies?

I want to rob a bank with a BB gun. "Give me all your money or I will give you a dimple! I will be rich, you will be cute. We both win."

Obviously crime pays, or there would be no crime.

A handbook for gangsters.

Such a crime as the embezzlement of any of the coins struck at the Mint, or of any of the metals brought to the Mint for coinage, would be punished under the laws of Pennsylvania, by a fine and penitentiary imprisonment at hard labor. The punishment annexed to this crime by the laws of the United States, enacted for the special protection of deposits made at the Mint, is DEATH.

Those involved in organized crime are generally motivated by one thing–profit. Huge sums of money are generated through arms smuggling, trafficking of human beings and narcotic substances, and financial crimes. These monies are laundered so that they have the appearance in our financial system of the proceeds of legitimate business activity.

There will be huge scandals because there is too much money washing around …. And we don’t know who’s behind it.

Follow the Money

I've been thinking about a bank robbery my whole life.

When we started out, there was so much cash involved that it attracted an element you'd rather not do business with.

As soon as I got to L.A., there was this big crime where these guys tunnelled underneath a bank on a three-day weekend and went right up to the vault and emptied everything out.