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.

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

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

Envy and betrayal do not sleep, they are two things that always go hand in hand.

Not even the Devil can call a woman “Slut” if he is not able to make her fall in love.

All I do is defend myself. Nothing more.

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.

I’m a decent man who exports flowers.

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

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.

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 are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I may not be the President of Mexico, but in Mexico I’m the boss.

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

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