Quotes by Carlos Slim - Page 2

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Engineering
Mural
University
Everywhere
San
Walls
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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.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Art
Beautiful
Beautiful Things
Country
Mexico
Experienced
Surrounded
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
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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 / Business Person
Different
Goal
Team
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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.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Beauty
Architecture
Appreciate
Temples
Buildings
Part
Easiest
Easiest Way
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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.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Technology
Courses
Digital
Internet
Professors
University
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
Universities
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Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.
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Business
Issues
Records
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With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. Having four days off would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Quality
Important
Relax
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First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Yield
Account
Bond
Bought
Check
Duplicated
Opened
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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 / Business Person
Technology
People
Trying
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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.
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Care
People
World
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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.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Banking
Holiday
Instruments
Mexico
Online
Stock Exchange
Trading
Exchange
Hardly
Shares
Stock
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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.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Numbers
First Of All
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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.
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Finance
Businessman
Ceo
Entrepreneur
Mining
Activities
Estate
Medium
Real Estate
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The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we have to be there. The Internet is the heart of this new civilization, and telecommunications are the nervous system, or circulatory system.
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Technology
Country
Heart
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We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to work together. In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself; you have to form alliances.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Executives
Microsoft
Wave
Alliance
Best Work Technology
Best Interests
Work Together
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I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Opportunity
America
Latin
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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.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Fund
Higher Education
Human Development
Laptops
Rural Areas
Capital
Programs
Rural
Scholarships
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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 / Business Person
Experience
Running
Better Off
Bottom
Bottom Line
Corporate
Entrepreneurial
Eye
Helping
Philanthropy
Responsibility
Effective
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I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the bricks are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.
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Business
Technology
Mistake
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It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don't believe in having big corporate infrastructures.
Carlos Slim / Business Person
Arriving
Believe
Want
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