Mario Puzo Quotes

"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
(Related: Death, Dumb, Evolution, Nothing, Poor, Sensitivity, Terror, Tragedy)

"Even the strongest man needs friends."
- Mario Puzo
(Related: Friends, Man, Needs)

"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger."
- Mario Puzo
(Related: Finance, Politics)

"Friendship and money: oil and water."
- Mario Puzo
(Related: 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
(Related: War, Man)

"I believe in America. America's made my fortune."
- Mario Puzo
(Related: America, Fortune)

"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
- Mario Puzo
(Related: Men)

"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment."
- Mario Puzo
(Related: Enemies, Hate, Judgment)

"The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth."
- Mario Puzo
(Related: Power, Money, Wealth, Children, Earth, World)

"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
(Related: Genius, Competition)