Creative Quotations from Mario Puzo (1921-1999)

Creative Quotations from . . .

Mario Puzo
(1921-1999) born on Oct 15

US novelist. His works include "Godfather," "Cotton Club," and "Earthquake."

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

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.

He's a businessman. I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.

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

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with People.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Referring to Don Vito Corleone; "The Godfather," bk. 3, ch. 14, 1969.
R:	Referring to Jordan Hawley, "Fools Die," ch. 2, 1978.
A:	"The Godfather," 1969.
N:	Oft-repeated dictum of Don Corleone, in "The Godfather," bk. 1, ch. 1, 1969.
K:	Don Corleone from "The Godfather," 1969.