Carlos Slim Quotes

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Carlos Slim

Profession : Businessman

Birth : January 28, 1940

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

Carlos Slim

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

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

Carlos Slim

Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

Carlos Slim

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

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

Carlos Slim

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.

Carlos Slim

CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.

Carlos Slim

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

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

The biggest things in life are not materials.

Carlos Slim

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.

Carlos Slim

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.

Carlos Slim

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

Carlos Slim

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.

Carlos Slim

There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

Carlos Slim