Quotes from Narcos

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Sometimes you gotta do bad things to catch bad people.

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.

As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.