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Mario Puzo
American
Novelist
About the author
I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.
Mario Puzo,
American
Novelist
#Man
#Sense
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,
American
Novelist
#Nothing
#Death
#Dumb
#Poor
#Tragedy
#Evolution
#Terror
#Sensitivity
Even the strongest man needs friends.
Mario Puzo,
American
Novelist
#Man
#Needs
#Friends
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
Mario Puzo,
American
Novelist
#Politics
#Finance
Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo,
American
Novelist
#Friendship
#Oil
#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.
Mario Puzo,
American
Novelist
#War
#Man
I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
Mario Puzo,
American
Novelist
#America
#Fortune
A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
Mario Puzo,
American
Novelist
#Men
Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment.
Mario Puzo,
American
Novelist
#Enemies
#Judgment
#Hate
The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
Mario Puzo,
American
Novelist
#Children
#World
#Earth
#Power
#Money
#Wealth
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,
American
Novelist
#Genius
#Competition