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
I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.
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.
Poverty isn’t solved with donations.
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.
I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the bricks are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.
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.
It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small
My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.
Choose the right employees and then set them loose.
Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.