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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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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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Choose the right employees and then set them loose.
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Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.
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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.
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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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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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Poverty isn’t solved with donations.
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No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
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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've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others
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Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.
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Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.
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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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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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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.
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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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You cannot live without doing something.
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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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Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
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