Mexican - Businessman | January 28, 1940 -
The biggest things in life are not materials.
Carlos Slim
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Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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You need to support human development and human capital as much as possible. And we've had 25 years of programs, great programs. We supported 125,000 surgeries. We fund 15,000 scholarships every year for college and higher education. We gave bicycles for rural areas. We gave laptops.
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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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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I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
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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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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
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