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

"Never hate your enemies. It affects your judgment."

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

"Friendship and money: oil and water."

"Even the strongest man needs friends."

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

"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."

"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger."

"The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth."

"I believe in America. America's made my fortune."