Quotes from Carlos Slim

You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired.

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

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.

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.

Money is not a goal. The goal is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team inside the company.

Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

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

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.

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

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

I don't have business with any politicians.

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.

The biggest things in life are not materials.

I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

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.

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

When we face our problems, they disappear. So learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

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

I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life.

Low interest rates are a big opportunity for investment. But the issue is that this money should go to the real economy, not the financial economy.

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.

CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.