Carlos Slim Quotes

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life.

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.

In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.

Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.

When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

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

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

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

When there is a crisis, that's when some are interested in getting out and that's when we are interested in getting in.

Choose the right employees and then set them loose.

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

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

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

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

Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others

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

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

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.

You have to have an international reference of competition. You have to go beyond your home.

You cannot live without doing something.

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.

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.

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

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.

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