Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.
– Carlos Slim
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.
– Carlos Slim
The biggest things in life are not materials.
– Carlos Slim
Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.
– Carlos Slim
The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well… the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.
– Carlos Slim
Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.
– Carlos Slim
When you live for others’ opinions, you are dead. I don’t want to live thinking about how I’ll be remembered.
– Carlos Slim
Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.
– Carlos Slim
Anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
– Carlos Slim
Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.
– Carlos Slim
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.
– Carlos Slim
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.
– Carlos Slim
All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.
– Carlos Slim
Poverty isn’t solved with donations.
– Carlos Slim
Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.
– Carlos Slim
With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life.
– Carlos Slim
Think of an athlete. He may be very good in his own house, but not as good as his neighbors. You have to go beyond your home. You have to go worldwide.
– Carlos Slim
In this new wave of technology, you can’t do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.
– Carlos Slim
Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.
– Carlos Slim
I think entrepreneurs… can think long term and find solutions and go in the way for long term solutions and not short-term.
– Carlos Slim
People need to feel very good about their achievements. They get pride from what they are doing.
– Carlos Slim
If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
– Carlos Slim
You cannot live without doing something.
– Carlos Slim
It’s very important for leaders in business to work to create human capital, a team that has the same sense of purpose and alignment.
– Carlos Slim
You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.
– Carlos Slim
Technology is going to transform people’s lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what’s going on and try to see where we can fit in.
– Carlos Slim
When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.
– Carlos Slim
When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.
– Carlos Slim
When you are convinced what to do and what you need to do, it’s not hard to do that.
– Carlos Slim
Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.
– Carlos Slim
When there is a crisis, that’s when some are interested in getting out and that’s when we are interested in getting in.
– Carlos Slim
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
– Carlos Slim
Choose the right employees and then set them loose.
– Carlos Slim
The only way you finish with poverty is with jobs.
– Carlos Slim
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.
– Carlos Slim
The fruit of wealth is income.
– Carlos Slim