Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim
Carlos Slim Helúis a Lebanese Mexican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world. Known as the "Warren Buffett of Mexico", he derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso. As of 31 July 2016 he was #7 on Forbes list of billionaires, with a net worth estimated at US$50 billion...
NationalityMexican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 January 1940
CityMexico City, Mexico
CountryMexico
You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.
There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
We have great confidence in Colombia, great confidence in its government and great confidence in Colombia's future.
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.
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.
With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life,
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.
Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.
When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.
Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.
In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.