Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

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

Freedom is very nice.

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

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.

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.

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.

There is a big difference between surrendering and knowing that enough was enough.

The problem is not a matter of money. The problem is a matter of dignity.

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.

Sometimes I feel like God, when I order someone killed – they die the same day.

All empires are created of blood and fire.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

It doesn’t matter how many times you feel trapped. There is always a way out. Don’t give up.

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