90 Quotes by Carlos Slim

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

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

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.

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

Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it’s not championship. It’s the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.

Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don’t add value to the bottom line.

It’s important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

It is not important NOT to make mistakes, but the mistakes to be small.

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