Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
Even the strongest man needs friends.
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.