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Carlos Slim Quotes

Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

– Carlos Slim

The biggest things in life are not materials.

– Carlos Slim

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

– Carlos Slim

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

– Carlos Slim

Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

– Carlos Slim

How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can – the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.

– Carlos Slim

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

– Carlos Slim

In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.

– Carlos Slim

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

– Carlos Slim

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

– Carlos Slim

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.

– Carlos Slim

You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.

– Carlos Slim

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

– Carlos Slim

It’s a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

– Carlos Slim

You should have more time for you during all of your life – not when you’re 65 and retired.

– Carlos Slim

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It’s beautiful.

– Carlos Slim

It’s important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

– Carlos Slim

First I opened a check account. I looked at the – I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.

– Carlos Slim

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

– Carlos Slim

Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

– Carlos Slim

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that’s not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

– Carlos Slim

I’ve always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it’s important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

– Carlos Slim

The artistic part of us all – I think that the easiest way to appreciate this – is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

– Carlos Slim

My parents weren’t artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.

– Carlos Slim

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

– Carlos Slim

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

– Carlos Slim