Freedom is very nice.
Women can be quiet, heartfelt or angry, but you will never see them defeated.
In this life you have to learn to get up because the road is full of stones.
When we are good, nobody remembers us. When we are bad, nobody forgets us.
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.
Never talk much about yourself to people, in times of envy, the blind man sees again, the mute to speak and deaf to hear.
You take care of me, I take care of you. You betray me, I kill you.
I am who I am. I like what I like. I do what I want. It’s my life, not yours.
In most cases the best advice that can be given is just listening.
I know one day I will die. I hope it’s of natural causes.
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.
I’m a decent man who exports flowers.
All I do is defend myself. Nothing more.
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.
Reconciliation is not usually part of a Colombian’s vocabulary.
Sometimes I feel like God, when I order someone killed – they die the same day.
Everyone has a price, the important thing is to find out what it is.
Drug trafficking destroyed my family. It gave us the world, and then it took it away.
The way, to have to be able to buy food is to survive is to grow poppy and marijuana.
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.
Always be nice to bankers. Always be nice to pension fund managers. Always be nice to the media. In that order.
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.
