Carlos Slim Quotes

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Carlos Slim

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 28, 1940

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

Carlos Slim

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

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I don't have business with any politicians.

Carlos Slim

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

Carlos Slim

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.

Carlos Slim

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.

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

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The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.

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You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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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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It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

Carlos Slim

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

Carlos Slim

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

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

Carlos Slim

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.

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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.

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