Carlos Slim Quotes
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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.
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Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.
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When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
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I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.
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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.
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Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.
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Poverty isn’t solved with donations.
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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.
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You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.
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I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others
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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.
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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.
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If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
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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.
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All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.
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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.
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When there is a crisis, that's when some are interested in getting out and that's when we are interested in getting in.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
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Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.
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Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
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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.
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It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small
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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.
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All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.
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Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.
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In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.
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Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.
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With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life.
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