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

The fact of the matter is that I wanted to hold a grudge in some funny kind of way.Against everybody.

Italians have a little joke, that the world is so hard a man must have two fathers to look after him, and that's why they have godfathers.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you don't talk about them. You don't try to justify them. They can't be justified. You just do them. Then you forget them.

I have always believed helping your fellow man is profitable in every sense, personally and bottom line.

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.