Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman

Never regret! If it was something good, it was incredible. If it was something bad, it was an experience.

In this life you have to learn to get up because the road is full of stones.

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

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

It’s rude to talk with an empty head.

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

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.

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

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

I’m a decent man who exports flowers.

Never talk much about yourself to people, in times of envy, the blind man sees again, the mute to speak and deaf to hear.

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

When we are good, nobody remembers us. When we are bad, nobody forgets us.

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

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

All I do is defend myself. Nothing more.

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

There can only be one king.

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

It’s rude to talk with an empty head.