The Role Of Integrity In Al Capone's Work

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“ You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.” -Al Capone. Al Capone a notorious gangster as seen in the quote had little integrity but was very successful at his job. He started at the bottom as a child of poor immigrants. He dropped out of school at the age of 14 and joined a gang. He eventually worked his way up to making 100 million dollars a year by bootlegging and murdering people who stood in his way. So the question is, is integrity imperative to success? According to Al Capone it’s not. “ ‘To do your job right,’ my Blue Fairy Godmother told me, ‘you’ll have to commit high treason, have to serve the enemy well. You won’t ever be forgiven for that, because there isn’t any legal device by which