"A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns." ― Mario Puzo Topic(s): Success More From Mario Puzo "Friendship and money: oil and water." "Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger." More In Success "There’s that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success."― Jodi Picoult "Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown."― Henry Ward Beecher "Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats."― Og Mandino