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.

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

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

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.

The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we have to be there. The Internet is the heart of this new civilization, and telecommunications are the nervous system, or circulatory system.

I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.

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

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the bricks are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

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.

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. Having four days off would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied.

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

Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

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

Technology is going to transform people's lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what's going on and try to see where we can fit in.

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.

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.

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

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

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

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

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.

The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.

It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.

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.

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.