A biography for Carlos Slimhasn’t been written yet.
“If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.”
“Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.”
“No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.”
“Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.”
“It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.”
“It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.”
“Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.”
“My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.”
“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.”
“At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.”
“The biggest things in life are not materials.”
“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.”
“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.”
“I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.”
“If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.”
“The artistic part of us all - I think that the easiest way to appreciate this - is through architecture. Architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.”
“Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.”
“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.”
“I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.”
“I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.”