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All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

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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I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
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Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.
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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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Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.
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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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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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Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society it is also an emotional need.
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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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You cannot live without doing something.
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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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It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.
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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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