Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

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.

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

In this life you have to learn to get up because the road is full of stones.

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

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

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.

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.

Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is.

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

Reconciliation is not usually part of a Colombian’s vocabulary.

Women can be quiet, heartfelt or angry, but you will never see them defeated.

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

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

Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.

The way, to have to be able to buy food is to survive is to grow poppy and marijuana.

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

When we are good, nobody remembers us. When we are bad, nobody forgets us.

It’s a reality that drugs destroy. Unfortunately where I grew up, there’s no other way to survive.

I’m a decent man who exports flowers.

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.

Well, from the time I was 15 and after, where I come from, which is the municipality of Badiraguato, I was raised in a ranch named La Tuna, in that area, and up until today, there are no job opportunities. The only way to have money to buy food, to survive, is to grow poppy, marijuana, and at that age, I began to grow it, to cultivate it and to sell it. That is what I can tell you.