Explore Quotes by Carlos Slim

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.

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.

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.

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.

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

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.

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

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

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.

Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others

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.

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

Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

You cannot live without doing something.

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.

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life.