Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

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

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

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.

The most beautiful woman is the one who is never divulging, she knows what she is and everything else is worth her.

I remember from the time I was six until now, my parents, a very humble family, very poor, I remember how my mom made bread to support the family. I would sell it, I sold oranges, I sold soft drinks, I sold candy. My mom, she was a hard worker, she worked a lot. We grew corn, beans. I took care of my grandmother’s cattle and chopped wood.

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

There can only be one king.

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

I remember from the time I was six until now, my parents, a very humble family, very poor, I remember how my mom made bread to support the family. I would sell it, I sold oranges, I sold soft drinks, I sold candy. My mom, she was a hard worker, she worked a lot. We grew corn, beans. I took care of my grandmother’s cattle and chopped wood.

All I do is defend myself. Nothing more.

I’m a decent man who exports flowers.

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

Sometimes I am God, if I say a man dies, he dies that same day.

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.

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

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

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.

Loyalty, honor and respect are words that forget ordinary people.

Freedom is very nice.

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

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