Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

I supply more heroin, methamphetamine, cocaine, and marijuana than anybody else in the world. I have a fleet of submarines, airplanes, trucks, and boats.

I am who I am. I like what I like. I do what I want. It’s my life, not yours.

Freedom is very nice.

You should never feel better than others, even the rain that comes from the top ends falling always at our feet.

Never regret! If it was something good, it was incredible. If it was something bad, it was an experience.

The ungrateful and mediocre people do not care if you do a thousand favors, in the end they get angry for the f**king favor you did not do them.

Drug trafficking destroyed my family. It gave us the world, and then it took it away.

Unfortunately… where I grew up there was no other way and there still isn’t a way to survive, no way to work in our economy.

Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.

You take care of me, I take care of you. You betray me, I kill you.

All I do is defend myself. Nothing more.

Never talk much about yourself to people, in times of envy, the blind man sees again, the mute to speak and deaf to hear.

It’s rude to talk with an empty head.

Series about narcos have turned my father (Pablo Escobar) into a hero and given young people the idea that it is cool to be a drug trafficker.

I know one day I will die. I hope it’s of natural causes.

In most cases the best advice that can be given is just listening.

Don’t carry a gun. It’s nice to have them close by, but don’t carry them. You might get arrested.

May you, yours and those around you have the good and the beautiful in your favor; that next year as well as better is different, that it is yours. Embrace yours, life is today.

I’m a decent man who exports flowers.

There is a big difference between surrendering and knowing that enough was enough.

Sometimes I feel like God, when I order someone killed – they die the same day.