Quotes from Carlos Slim

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.

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

You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.

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.

The year 1983 was crazy. People wanted to sell not only their investments... but also their companies.

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.

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.

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

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

First I opened a check account. I looked at the - I looked that there was nothing of yield. So I bought some bonds. It was a bond. When I bought this bond, it was duplicated in 10 years. I think it was 10 percent.

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

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

It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70.

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.

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.

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

There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

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.

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

If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.

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.

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.