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.

I believe in America. America's made my fortune.

Loyalty is the strongest glue which makes a relationship last for a life time.

Gambling is not as destructive as war or as boring as pornography. It is not as immoral as business or as suicidal as watching television. And the percentages are better than religion.

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, is in its loyalty to each other.

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.

Even the strongest man needs friends.

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.

Actions defined a man words were a fart in the wind.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

The strength of a family like the strength of an army is in its loyalty to each other.

Great men are not born great they grow great . . .

The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.

A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man.

The lawyer with the briefcase can steal more money than the man with the gun.

Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.