Carlos Slim famous quotes

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

#Relax #Quality #Three

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Destiny #Past #Incentives

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

#Winning #Competition #Competitors

Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.
-- Carlos Slim

#Opportunity #Missing #Investing

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.
-- Carlos Slim

#Others Opinions #Opinion

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

#Technology #Alliances #Wave

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Team #Goal #Different

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Country #Heart #Technology

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

#Inspiration #Crisis

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Emotional #Feelings #Mind

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

#Thinking #Others Opinions #Want

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

#Tools #Good Times #All Time

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

#Focus #Trying #Lines

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Mother #Father #Years

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#People #World #Care

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

#Father #Years #Passed Away

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

#Home #Competition

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

#Incentives #Faces #Problem

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Technology #Digital #Internet

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Relax #Quality #Important

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

#Country #Children #Giving

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

#Responsibility #Thinking #People

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

#Engineering #University

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

#Baseball #Football #Rugby

The biggest things in life are not materials.
-- Carlos Slim

#Materials

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
-- Carlos Slim

#Enjoy

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.
-- Carlos Slim

#Poverty #Donation

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Running #Eye #Responsibility

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

#Technology #Men #Paper

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Believe #Administration #Arriving

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.
-- Carlos Slim

#Yield #Optimism #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.
-- Carlos Slim

#School #Mexico #Culture

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

#Mistake #Making Mistakes #Important

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Beautiful #Country #Art

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

#Pay #Matter #Taught

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

#Years #Investment #Young

You cannot live without doing something.
-- Carlos Slim

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Business #Issues #Records

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

#Inspirational #Responsibility #Helping Others

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.
-- Carlos Slim

#Business #Thinking #Civilization