Pablo Escobar

All empires are created of blood and fire.

I’m a decent man who exports flowers.

Give him lead!

There are two hundred million idiots, manipulated by a million intelligent men.

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.

A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money.

Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is.

I have never believed that prosperity is bad or something to be shunned.

There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

You can’t substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship. Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.

Money is something you have to make in case you don’t die.

To make a million, start with $900,000.

If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!

All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.

[On Roberts saying ‘I don’t know if I want to give up my whole management company and take it apart.’] Don’t be stupid. I’ll make you more money than you’ve made alone.

In spite of the cost of living, it’s still popular.

Hobbies cost money but interests are free