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

Father, Years, Passed Away, Passed, Young

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

Inspirational, Business, Winning, Wins, Competitor, Competition

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.

Latin, Opportunity, America, Economic, Poverty

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

Helping, Helping Others, Inspirational, Responsibility, Said

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.

Beautiful, Country, Art, Years, Mexico

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

Country, Children, Giving, Give

All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

Mistake, Making Mistakes, Tricks, Make, Mistakes, Trick

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.

Technology, People, Trying, Transform, Society

Choose the right employees and then set them loose.

Employee, Employees, Choose, Set, Loose, Right

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

Investing, Missing, Opportunity, Tremendous

Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

Children, Our World, People, World, Make

Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.

Responsibility, Emotional, Needs, Done, Work

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

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

Sound, Pay, Matter, Crisis, Eventually, Bad

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

Years, Investment, Young, Maybe, Investments

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

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

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

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.

Business, Companies, Issues, Records, Sector

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

In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.

Alliances, Partnership, Technology, Wave

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