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

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.

Friendship and money: oil and water.