I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
— Mario Puzo
Even the strongest man needs friends.
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
Friendship and money: oil and water.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
