Quotes by Ernesto "Don Neto" Fonseca Carrillo

Let's have a toast. For the hits life throws our way. With time, they're what make you stronger, young man.

Even in sin, you can still be a saint.

I'm going to tell you something curious about prisons. You're never alone. But you always have the feeling that you are.

The number two guy doesn't solve problems. He just points them out.

When you start moving furniture around, people stub their toes and get upset.

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

Get the f out of here and don't stop walking until you hear them speak English!

There is one problem with success. Not everyone can handle it.

Business is changing and we must change with it.

There is no stronger bond than that of the family you choose.

Best way to catch the smart ones? Get an idiot working for them.

I believe the world's a bad place. And I don't think I'm much better. But we have to try.

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

We have to control this f*cking world, or it will control you. And if you don't protect yourself, it makes a mess and breaks you.

When I look at something, I don't see it for what it is, I see it for what it could be. When I look at something, I see how it ends.

What I'm doing here… is building an empire.

What a man wants does not define him. What a man needs is what defines him.

Life is a long journey where maps were drawn by a fool.

You want to hurt these guys, we gotta take down the ones calling the shots.

Shoot me and tomorrow those names are released. But save a bullet for yourself. ‘Cause the system doesn't like heroes.

You want to dismantle an empire? Divide it!

So how do you take down a crook who's at the top of his game? Who has every cop in town in his pocket? Well, you hold your breath and you hope you get lucky.

Those men sitting in Mexico City might be done with me, but I'm not done with them.

I am afraid of panic. Turns out it's bad for business.

Time is crucial in a kidnapping. The sooner action's taken, the better your chances of things working out, and everybody coming home in one piece. They put that in the handbook nowadays.

When things go well, people start thinking it's because they're so f*cking smart.

Make it easier for those whose vote you can count on. Make it harder for those you can't. That's how you rig an election without leaving a lick of evidence.

Simba: "Ouh. Jeez, what was that for?"
Rafiki: "It doesn't matter, it's in the past."
Simba: "Yeah, but it still hurts."
Rafiki: "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it."

Oh yes. The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.

I don't need to punish people for sin. Sin is its own punishment, devouring you from the inside.

No higher power sits in judgement of us. No supreme being watches to punish us for our sins. In the end, only we ourselves can guard against our obsessions. Only we can decide whether the road we walk carries too high a toll.

You know the funny thing is, on the outside I was an honest man, straight as an arrow. I had to come to prison to be a crook.

You know what they do to handsome guy like me in prison. It rhymes with grape.

The wheels of bureaucracy tend to move at their own speed.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.

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

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

Geniuses are always branded as crazy.

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?"