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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. "
Carlos Slim
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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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" I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise. "
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" You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired. "
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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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" We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility. "
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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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" I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby. "
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" Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports. "
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" If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working. "
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" The biggest things in life are not materials. "
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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
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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. "
Carlos Slim
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Toy
Life
" Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments. "
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Well
" 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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Think
" No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young. "
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Young
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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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" 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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" 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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You
" 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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" Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business. "
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