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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. "
Carlos Slim
Culture
History
School
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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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" 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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" You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials. "
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" Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young. "
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" Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business. "
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" It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70. "
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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. "
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" Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments. "
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" We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility. "
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" I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful. "
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" I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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. "
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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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" If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working. "
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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. "
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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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