Willie Sutton Quotations

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with just a kind word.

There was the South Ozone National Bank looking as though it had been waiting for me.

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

It's a different type of heat. Here you have humidity and you sweat. Other there it's like a blow dryer. When I was getting ready to leave it was up to 126,

I'm responsible for training a hundred or better soldiers on how to react to nuclear, biological and chemical weapons,

You can't rob a bank on charm and personality,

Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.

I rob banks because that's where the money is.

Go where the money is... and go there often.

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.