The best Quotes by César Gaviria

Colombians say, God made our land so beautiful it was unfair to the rest of the world. So to even the score, God populated the land with a race of evil men.

The bad guys need to get lucky every time. The good guys just need to get lucky once.

I am not a rich person. I am a poor person with money.

Geniuses are always branded as crazy.

I don't want to be good. I am going to be great.

Imagine you were born in a poor family, in a poor city, in a poor country, and by the time you were 28 years old, you have so much money you can't even count it. What do you do? You make your dreams come true.

Lies are necessary, when the truth is too difficult to believe.

The purpose of war is peace.

What good is having all the money in the world if you can't go home?

Silver or lead. You decide.

If there's one thing I've learned in the narco world, it's that life is more complicated than you think. Good and bad, they're relative concepts.

Bad guys don't play by the rules. That's what makes them bad.

You can have all the intelligence in the world, but if nobody's there to act on it, what's it worth? Nothing.

In Colombia, when money's involved, blood inevitably flows.

I have given the Minister of Defense and all the military one big goal and that is by the end of my administration we will end up having the lowest homicide rate in the last 30 years in Colombia.

Colombia is so different to what I know, and every aspect of the country is different to England, and I loved it. I loved the culture and the food, and the coffee was amazing.

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

I'm Colombian and nothing will change that.

We have to make a shift from illegal economies to legal economies. Having the possibility for the growers to have a sustainable income based on new legal crops.

The men of always aren't interested in the children of never.

To have power does not mean that one can abuse the poor.

They may separate us, but they'll never be able to destroy us.

I am Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria. My eyes are everywhere. That means you guys can't move a finger in all of Antioquia without me knowing about it. Do you understand? Not a finger. One day, I'm going to be president of the Republic of Colombia. So look, I make deals for a living. Now, you can stay calm and accept my deal, or accept the consequences.

There is a time to fight and there is a time to be clever.

Miguel: "Would you have really fed me to those hippos?"
Pablo: "No. Hippos don't like Mexicans either."

When you get too close to the sun, your dreams may melt away.

In the United States, the Mafia makes witnesses disappear so they can't testify in court. In Colombia, Pablo Escobar made the whole court disappear.

Want to know what God thinks of money? Take a look at who he gives it to.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

Either get out early, or you get out too late.

Sometimes you gotta do bad things to catch bad people.

Lip: "Hey, whoa. You really think they deserve your hard-earned money for that service?"
Frank: "Dine and dash?"
Lip: "Bite and bolt."
Frank: "Eat it and beat it?"