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

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

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

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

Even the strongest man needs friends.
Mario Puzo

Friendship and money: oil and water.
Mario Puzo