A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
Mario Puzo
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
Mario Puzo
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
Mario Puzo
I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
Mario Puzo
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.
Mario Puzo
Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Mario Puzo
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.
Mario Puzo
Even the strongest man needs friends.
Mario Puzo
I believe in America. America’s made my fortune.
Mario Puzo
