Quincy Jones Quotes

A handbook for gangsters.

I think crime pays. The hours are good, you travel a lot.

Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.

Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs... gangsters who lust after fortunes and power.

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

I know nothing of what it is to be a gangster.

Folks who think organised crime is a thing of the past are only kidding themselves.

I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem, in Brooklyn... Those neighborhoods were, in those years, dominated by mafia families. You knew it and you felt it, you know?

I have made only two films on the underworld. I am not educating the people on the underworld.

Members of organized crime continue to exploit their victims the old-fashioned way - through violence, threats and intimidation. As law enforcement has so successfully done before, we will employ our own time-tested techniques to bring them to justice to account for their crimes.

Organized crime is the dirty side of the sharp dollar.

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business.

Wherever there's opportunity, the mafia will be there.

I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

The can’t collect legal taxes from illegal money.

When you are part of a cartel, you don't have a Costco card that says, 'I'm a card-carrying member of the cartel.'

He [Donald Trump] is like - he's a magnet for crime and extortion and, you know, just really criminal investments which are extremely dangerous.

Where I grew up, in New Jersey, there was a lot of organised crime activity. It was a part of life.

There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.

Simply that we are mirroring the trends in society, at any given time smuggling was an issue in the seventies, corruption is an issue today, and we faithfully reflect those issues.

The 'Ndrangheta is an exceptionally dangerous, sophisticated and insidious criminal organization, with tentacles stretching from Italy to countries around the world.

A lot of my friends are gangsters. Not like gangsters - well, yeah, all sorts of levels of criminality - but not the types that are preying on innocent people. I have no interest in the type of criminality that has no respect for collateral damage.

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