There can only be one king.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesnt know what he is doing.
The problem is not a matter of money. The problem is a matter of dignity.
There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.
Life is full of surprises, some good, some not so good.
I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.
Sometimes I feel like God, when I order someone killed – they die the same day.
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.
When we are good, nobody remembers us. When we are bad, nobody forgets us.
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.
It doesn’t matter how many times you feel trapped. There is always a way out. Don’t give up.
I may not be the President of Mexico, but in Mexico I’m the boss.
Never regret! If it was something good, it was incredible. If it was something bad, it was an experience.
You should never feel better than others, even the rain that comes from the top ends falling always at our feet.
Drug trafficking destroyed my family. It gave us the world, and then it took it away.
In most cases the best advice that can be given is just listening.
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.
It’s rude to talk with an empty head.
There is a big difference between surrendering and knowing that enough was enough.
It’s a reality that drugs destroy. Unfortunately where I grew up, there’s no other way to survive.
Reconciliation is not usually part of a Colombian’s vocabulary.