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Carlos Slim [1940-0] Mexican

Rank: 101
Businessman, Business magnate

Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world.

Architecture, Business, Finance

Quote	Tags	Rank
It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.		101
Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.	Business	102
Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.		103
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.	Finance	104
You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.		105
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.		106
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.		107
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.		108
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.		109
If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.		110
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.		111
If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.		112
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.		113
Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.		114
The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.		115
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.		116
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.		117
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.		118
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.		119
The biggest things in life are not materials.		120
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.		121
I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.		122
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.		123
You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.		124
It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.		125
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.		126
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.	Architecture	201
We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.		202
When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.		203
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.		204
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.		205
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.		206
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.		207
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.		208
I don't have business with any politicians.		209
There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.		210
CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.		211

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