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. Carlos Slim More Quotes by Carlos Slim More Quotes From Carlos Slim Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear. Carlos Slim disappear problem faces You have to have an international reference of competition. You have to go beyond your home. Carlos Slim international competition home 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 giving country children 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. Carlos Slim eye responsibility running 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. Carlos Slim mexico culture school I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby. Carlos Slim rugby baseball football 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. Carlos Slim arriving want believe 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. Carlos Slim mother father years I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. Carlos Slim university engineering 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 digital internet technology This is a great opportunity for these funds to invest in these very infrastructure projects. Carlos Slim company-news Thinking that a huge boat from China unloads and transports while there's another huge boat waiting to transport east to the United States, I believe, is a bad idea. Carlos Slim company-news I can assure you that we have not participated in any act of corruption at any time. Carlos Slim world Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business. Carlos Slim efficiency business management way You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials. Carlos Slim you maturity want 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. Carlos Slim go money real opportunity 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 think architecture beauty way 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 great you support education You should have more time for you during all of your life - not when you're 65 and retired. Carlos Slim your you time life It's a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70. Carlos Slim you experience society knowledge
