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

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

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.

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.

In Sicily, women are more dangerous than shotguns.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .