Carlos Slim

Businessman

Mexico

1940 - Present

29 quotes

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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.
Carlos Slim
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.
Carlos Slim
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
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.
Carlos Slim
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.
Carlos Slim
We really think highly of the executives at SBC. And Microsoft is one of the great companies of the 21st century. It is in all of our best interests to work together. In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself; you have to form alliances.
Carlos Slim
We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.
Carlos Slim
I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
Carlos Slim
Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
Carlos Slim