John Gotti
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"John Joseph Gotti, Jr." was an American mobster who became the crime boss/boss of the Gambino crime family/Gambino crime family in New York City. Gotti and his brothers grew up in poverty and turned to a life of crime at an early age. Operating out of the Ozone Park, Queens/Ozone Park neighborhood of Queens, Gotti quickly rose to prominence, becoming one of the crime family's biggest earners and a protégé of Gambino family underboss Aniello Dellacroce.

After the Federal Bureau of Investigation/FBI indicted members of Gotti's crew for selling narcotics, Gotti took advantage of growing dissent over the leadership of the crime family. Fearing he would be killed along with his brother and best friend by Gambino crime family Boss Paul Castellano for selling drugs, Gotti organized the murder of Castellano in December 1985 and took over the family shortly thereafter. This left Gotti as the boss of one of the most powerful crime families in America, one that made hundreds of millions of dollars a year from construction, hijacking, loan sharking, gambling, extortion and other criminal activities.

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Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

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If you think your boss is stupid, remember: you wouldn't have a job if he was any smarter.

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It's better to live one day as a lion than a hundred years as a lamb.

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If they're gonna get you, they wanna get you, ... And they use Machiavellian technique. The ends justify the means. That's what this low-life country is all about, John. That's the reason they have me in Marion, John.

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Don't carry a gun. It's nice to have them close by, but don't carry them. You might get arrested.

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He's getting personal, I want to get personal.

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I thought about you!

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I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid.

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You guys are going to have to do a piece of work for the family.

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Let's just say the government is telling the truth and I'm the boss, ... Let's just say the government is telling the truth and this guy is the boss. ... I would have to tell this guy that I made my son. ... This is the government feeding this -- -- punk .

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