Quotes by Mario Puzo

• I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
• 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.
• Even the strongest man needs friends.
• Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
• Friendship and money: oil and water.
• 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 believe in America. America's made my fortune.
• 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.
• Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.