Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

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

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.

Rich one who is sastifed with what God gives him.

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

It’s rude to talk with an empty head.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

I am not prejudiced in any way.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

When you get emotional, slow your thoughts down, and listen attentively (write it down). That way, you’ll be able to hear what you are thinking. You do this becoming very still and very quiet, and recording your thoughts. These high-speed thoughts and internal reactions always precede your feelings and emotions. Trust me, you did tell yourself something if you now feel anger, mad, anxious, frustrated, sad or depressed. From now on, whenever you get upset, listen ever so carefully, to what you are telling yourself.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Much depends on people knowing what opportunity means; it doesn’t mean a silver platter, it oftener means a spade. Self-help means something sterner than ‘help yourself’–reach over and take it.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a chance of being a prophet.

Man is a comparative being. Substandard things must go before super-standard things can come.

I am what I am Are you what you are or What?