Marsellus Wallace

"Patience in negotiation is just slow death."

"The real power is knowing who to hurt and when."

"Life is a series of calculated risks."

"My word is worth more than any contract."

"Success smells like victory and broken promises."

"I don't fear death. I fear irrelevance."

"Leadership is making others do what you want without them knowing."

"The secret to power is understanding human nature."

"Justice is whatever serves my interests."

"Time waits for no one. Neither do I."

"Patience is the art of looking busy while waiting to strike."

"Knowledge without power is just conversation."

"Peace is the absence of threats to my authority."

"Change is only acceptable when I control it."

"Courage is doing what's necessary regardless of cost."

"Work is what you do to maintain control."

"Beauty fades. Power endures."

"Being kind is another word for being weak."

"Money talks. Everything else walks."

"Hope is the last resort of the desperate."

"Dreams die when you face reality."

"Education is knowing the rules. Experience is breaking them."

"Strength is the only language people understand."

"I've learned that promises are just lies we tell ourselves."

"My success is built on the ruins of others' ambitions."

"Gratitude is weakness dressed as virtue."

"Creativity in this world means finding new ways to dominate."

"Relationships are transactions. Remember that."

"Power corrupts, but it corrupts slowly and pleasantly."

"I prefer my own company to anyone else's."