Quotes By Mario Puzo

Friendship and money: oil and water.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.

Even the strongest man needs friends.