Carlos Slim Helú quotes

To have simple structures and organizations with minimal hierarchical levels, with human development and in house training of executive functions. To have flexibility and speed in making decisions. Operating with the advantages of the small business, which are what comprise big businesses. (Carlos Slim Helú)

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

Carlos Slim Helú

When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.

Carlos Slim Helú

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

Carlos Slim Helú

The biggest things in life are not materials.

Carlos Slim Helú

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

Carlos Slim Helú

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

Carlos Slim Helú

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.

Carlos Slim Helú

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.

Carlos Slim Helú

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.

Carlos Slim Helú

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. (Carlos Slim Helú)

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

Carlos Slim Helú

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

Carlos Slim Helú

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.

Carlos Slim Helú

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

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I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

Carlos Slim Helú

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 Helú