Carlos Slim Quotes

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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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• 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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• 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.

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• Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

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• The biggest things in life are not materials.

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• 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.

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• No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

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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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• 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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• If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

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• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

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• I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

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• I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

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Carlos Slim (13)

Birth:	28th January, 1940
Nationality:	Mexican
Profession:	Businessman, Investor, Philanthropist

About

Carlos Slim was born in Mexico City, Mexico. He is a Mexican businessman, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world, but that position has been regained by Bill Gates. Presently, Slim is the chairman and chief executive of telecommunications companies Telmex and América Móvil.

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