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Carlos Slim Biography

Carlos Slim Helú (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkaɾlos esˈlim eˈlu]; born January 28, 1940) is a Mexican business magnate, engineer, investor, and philanthropist. From 2010 to 2013, Slim was ranked as the richest person in the world by the Forbes business magazine. He derived his fortune from his extensive holdings in a considerable number of Mexican companies through his conglomerate, Grupo Carso. As of March 2018, he is the seventh-richest person in the world according to Forbes' listing of The World's Billionaires with a net worth estimated at $70.5 billion.

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The biggest things in life are not materials.

Things In Life, Materials, Biggest, Things, Life

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

Father, Years, Passed Away, Passed, Young

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.

School, Culture, Mexico, Algebra

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.

Country, Heart, Technology, States, Circulatory

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

Others Opinions, Live For Others, Opinion, Dead, Opinions, Live

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

Baseball, Football, Rugby, Love

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

Investing, Missing, Opportunity, Tremendous

Competition makes you better, always, always makes you better, even if the competitor wins.

Inspirational, Business, Winning, Wins, Competitor, Competition

When there is a crisis, that's when some are interested in getting out and that's when we are interested in getting in.

Inspiration, Crisis, Billionaire, Interested

Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.

Focus, Trying, Essentials, Distracted, Add

It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small

Mistake, Making Mistakes, Important, Make, Small, Mistakes

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.

Important, Relax, Quality, Having, Week, Entertainment

Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive. Each person forges his or her own destiny.

Burden, Destiny, Future, Incentives, Past, Present

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

Tools, Good Times, All Time, Work, Know, Times

Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.

Faces, Problem, Disappear, Displaces, Preoccupation, Staying

When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.

Thinking, Others Opinions, Entrepreneur, Dead, Remembered, Opinions

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.

Mother, Father, Years, Same

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

Emotional, Feelings, Mind, Conceived, Control

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.

Believe, Arriving, Want, Administration, Layers

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

Autonoma, Engineering, Universidad, University

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