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It's just business nothing personal.

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Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
Author
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
Business
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Friendship and money: oil and water.
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I will make you an offer you cannot refuse
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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.
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster
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What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.
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I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
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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.
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It was from this experience came his oft-repeated belief that every man has but one destiny.
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.
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You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
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All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.
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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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I don't trust society to protect us, I have no intention of placing my fate in the hands of men whose only qualification is that they managed to con a block of people to vote for them.
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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
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Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.
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God seemed to be having a hard time killing him, and he'd be damned if he was going to make the job easy for mere mortals
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He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge that in this world there comes a time when the most humble of men, if he keeps his eyes open, can take his revenge on the most powerful.
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I find the only thing that really stands up, better than gambling, better than booze, better than women, is reading.
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