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

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

Mario Puzo · Finance

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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.

Death

Mario Puzo

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Friendship

Mario Puzo

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

Men

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.

War