Mob Rules: What the Mafia Can Teach the Legitimate Businessman

by Louis Ferrante

Mafia families are cut from a special kind of human cloth: they include people of especially strong aggressive and predatory tendencies. —Pino Arlacchi, Mafia Business

“If a bank never repossessed a car,” he told me, “who would make a car payment?”

Most of us operate with a “take the money and run” attitude. How many of us are willing to stand on principle and accept a short-term loss to reap long-term benefits?

The Mafia will stand on principle (when it’s practical) for the sake of long-term profit, and simple survival.