Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Carlos Slim
Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Mexican businessman Carlos Slim.
Last updated on September 19, 2024.
You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
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.
It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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.
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
I don't have business with any politicians.
We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to work together. In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself; you have to form alliances.
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. 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.
Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
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.
It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.
Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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.
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.
When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.
If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.
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.
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.
The biggest things in life are not materials.
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.
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.
We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
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.
There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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.
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.
Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.
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.
When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.
Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.
All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.
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.
Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.
Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.
All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.
You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.
In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.
With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life.
It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small
Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.
When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
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.
Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.
When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.
Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.
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.
Poverty isn’t solved with donations.
Choose the right employees and then set them loose.
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