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No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
Carlos Slim
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Carlos Slim
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: January 28
Business Magnate
Business Person
Chief Executive Officer
Civil Engineer
Computer Scientist
Investor
Philanthropist
Mexico City
Mexico
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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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Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.
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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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Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.
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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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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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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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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.
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When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.
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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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Poverty isn’t solved with donations.
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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'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.
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When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.
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You cannot live without doing something.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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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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It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small
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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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All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.
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