The 70 best quotes of Carlos Slim

Carlos Slim (Mexico City, January 28, 1940) is a renowned Mexican billionaire. He is currently the sixth richest man in the world according to the prestigious magazine Forbes.

His academic career led him to graduate in civil engineering from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Later he began to buy and sell real estate, businesses with which he began to amass a small fortune.

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Quotes and famous quotes by Carlos Slim

Afterwards, he immersed himself in different businesses in telecommunications and the internet, with which he gradually created the largest fortune in Mexico and one of the largest in the world, only appearing behind the Microsoft tycoon, Bill Gates.

In today's article Let's know the best quotes of Carlos Slim to approach the mentality of a successful businessman .

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

Everything is learned, especially from those who are better.

2. The greatest things in life are not material.

Despite his immense economic fortune, Carlos Slim does not live on tickets.

3. If you are in business, you need to understand the environment. You need to have a vision of the future and you need to know the past.

Without a strategic vision you only have a product that, sooner or later, will perish.

4. You have to have an international reference of competence. You have to go beyond your home.

If you limit yourself to your comfort zone, you are likely to touch the roof quickly.

5. When there is a crisis, it is when some are interested in leaving and we are interested in entering.

Crises are great times to invest, since prices are on the floor.

6. Every moment is good for those who know how to work and have the tools to do it.

If you know how, the rest flows.

7. When I was very young, maybe 12 years old, I started making investments.

His entrepreneurial mentality began at puberty.

8. Each person forges his own destiny.

According to Carlos Slim, you own your future yourself.

9. I have always said that the better you are, the more responsibility you have to help others.

Humility must be greater the more successful one is.

10. It is important to give a better country to our children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

Education is the key to everything.

11. When we decide to do something, we do it fast.

Things that are going to work out usually require a period of brief reflection.

12. The only way you end poverty is with jobs.

With salaries and giving an opportunity to people.

13. I believe that anything that has privileges has responsibility and all the people who have clear responsibilities have a commitment.

A desideratum for life.

14. In this new wave of technology, you can not do everything by yourself, you have to form alliances.

The system is so complex that it is unfeasible to want to do everything on its own.

15. Live the present intensely and fully, do not let the past be a burden, and let the future be an incentive.

Enjoy every day, without anxiety and without fear of the future.

16. Do not let negative feelings and emotions control your mind. Emotional pain does not come from others; It is developed and conceived in our interior.

One of those phrases of Carlos Slim deeper and psychological.

17. Errors are normal and human. Eat them small, accept them, correct them and forget them.

It's no use punishing yourself. Pass page and something else.

18. When we face the problems, they disappear. Learn from failure and let success be the silent incentive.

In the line of the previous famous quote.

19. Firm and patient optimism always pays off.

Constancy, perseverance and long look.

20. Poverty is not solved with donations.

Misunderstood solidarity is not, of course, a long-term solution.

21. All companies make mistakes. The trick is to avoid the big ones.

A tip to avoid big inconveniences.

22. I do not believe much in luck. I believe in the circumstances. I believe in work.

Phrase that many millionaires repeat.

23. Use any personal crisis to become stronger.

Certainly, a bad run should make us leave very reinforced.

24. The truth is that you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must manage well ... the wealth under your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.

Your vision about money and life.

25. Competition makes you better. Always, it always improves you, even if the competitor is stronger than you.

The competition has to push you to be better.

26Money is not an objective. The objective is to make companies grow, develop, be competitive, be in different areas, be efficient to have a great human team within the company.

Companies have their beginning and their end ... and the goal should not be to enrich oneself.

27. Education and employment are the remedies for poverty.

Without these weapons, the battle is lost.

28. The best way to have is to create opportunities in Mexico, so that people do not leave.

On the situation in the North American country.

29. Success is not doing things well or very well and having the recognition of others. It is not an outside opinion, it is an inner state. It is the harmony of the soul and its emotions, which needs love, family, friendship, authenticity, integrity.

Brutal reflection on success.

30. Our premise is and always has been to keep in mind that we are leaving with nothing; that we can only do things in life and that the entrepreneur is a creator of wealth that he manages temporarily.

Another phrase that removes iron to the economic issue.

31. Work well done is not only a responsibility with society, it is also an emotional need.

When we work efficiently, we will sleep more calm and happy.

32. Simple structures, organizations with minimum hierarchical levels, human development and internal training of executive functions. Flexibility and speed in decision making. Operate with the advantages of the small company that are what make big companies big.

This is how a company should be, according to Carlos Slim.

33. What counts is having your feet on the ground, the concept of family, friends; appreciate things that have real value, not just material, not just physical.

Ironically, a multimillionaire who does not give importance to material benefit.

34. A person is not successful, because he is doing well in business, doing well professionally, or taking 10 out of school. Success is measured in how many people smile at you, how many people you love, how many admire your sincerity and the simplicity of your spirit.

A recipe for emotional success.

35. The occupation displaces the concern, and the problems in facing them disappear.

Great word game that serves as a guide for day to day.

36. The problems must make us stronger, from the failures to learn and make successes silent stimuli.

Focused on the future

37. There is no challenge that we can not achieve by working together clearly with the objectives and knowing the instruments.

Cooperation leads to the highest goals.

38. The money that leaves the company evaporates. That's why we reinvest profits.

It's no use wasting.

39. Avoid the bitter dramatic adjustments in times of crisis.

Firing is not the solution to the problems of the company.

40. Keep the austerity in times of fat cows. This strengthens, capitalizes and accelerates the development of the company.

Great advice for successful corporations.

41. Success is about if they remind you when you leave. It refers to how many people you help, how much you avoid harming or if there is no grudge in your heart. It is about that your dreams are in your triumphs and that your achievements do not hurt your fellowmen. It's about your integration with others, not your control over them.

Positive emotions and optimism in abundance.

42. All times are good for those who know how to work and have what to do.

One of those phrases by Carlos Slim that extols the value of perseverance and professionalism.

43. In wealth itself, the important thing is not how much you have, what you have; but what is done with it.

You decide what kind of life you want.

44. Since I was little I liked investments.

Another famous quote in which he explains his precocity with business.

45. I believe that success is not economic.

Many other facets of life are more relevant.

46. ​​Success depends on whether you used your head as much as your heart, if you were generous, if you loved children and nature, if you cared about the elderly. It's about your goodness, your desire to serve, your ability to listen and your value in behavior.

Being a good person is above all.

47. You can not have people in your organization who are pessimistic. They will take you to mediocrity.

Flee from pessimism and ashes people.

48. When we meet, groups can not compete with each other within the company. We need to go in the same direction, we do not compete inside, we compete outside.

A great maxim for success.

49. My father used to say: Do it well and do it on time.

A great reflection of Carlos Slim's father.

50. When you do not have money, it's a problem. But it is a bigger problem when people who have money in excess are not running businesses and making investments or creating jobs and doing things for society. They only think of possessions.

The new rich often make bad decisions.

51. If we have to make mistakes, we make small mistakes ... We prefer not to commit them, of course, but small mistakes are the best.

At least they tell you where to go without squandering large amounts.

52. I learned from my father that we must invest and re-invest continuously, even in times of crisis.

Always with an expansion mentality.

53. In business, you invest when things are not in good shape. When you invest in those times, you position yourself better against the competition. When there is a recession and your competition does not invest, they are giving you an advantage.

Great financial education

54. When you live by the opinion of others, you are dead. I do not want to live thinking how I will be remembered.

Make your own way, some will follow you and others will not.

55. It is important for business leaders to create human capital, a team with the same sense of belonging and disposition.

A great team makes everything work correctly.

56. Profitability comes from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity and the way of managing the business.

Everything adds up, if you do it right.

57. Our philosophy is that you must provide non-profit money for health, nutrition, education, culture and sports.

An accurate and respectful philosophy with the human environment.

58. I believe that everything that has privileges has a responsibility and everyone who has a clear responsibility has a commitment to others.

About altruism.

59. It is not necessary to increase taxes on rich people, since they create capitalization and investment. But you need to impose taxes on speculation, that is, capital gains.

A fiscal recipe

60. If you're in business, you're not enjoying yourself. You are working.

In fact, "business" is, etymologically, the denial of leisure.

61. I buy companies for strategic reasons and I exploit them.

A way to go accumulating goods.

62. There are people who are good at letters and others who are good at numbers.

Each one is born with specific talents.

63. You can not do thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of teachers, but with technology and the Internet you can have excellent courses and make a digital university.

On the future of training.

64. The artistic part of all of us, I think the easiest way to appreciate this, is through architecture. The architecture is very impressive; the beauty of buildings, temples.

His passion for architectural art.

65. It is a society of knowledge and experience. You have better experience and knowledge when you are 60, 65 and 70 years old.

Great reflection on valuing the experience.

66. In business, you invest when things are not in good shape. When you invest in these moments, you take a better position than your competitors. When there is a recession and your competition does not invest, they are giving you an advantage.

Take advantage of these small concessions.

67. You can not live without doing something.

You must always stay active.

68. It is important to give your children a better country, but it is more important to give your nation better children.

Important reflection

69. I still have my laptop but I have not used it. I am a man of paper, not electronic.

It seems a lie that a genius of finance continues to use the computer.

70. When you are convinced of what to do and what you should do, it is not difficult to do that.

Self-confidence, an essential part of business.