Carlos Slim Quotes

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

  Carlos Slim

  Inspirational, Business, Winning

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• Most people try to make a better world for our children when what they should be doing is making better children for our world.

  Carlos Slim

  Children, Our World, People

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

  Carlos Slim

  Incentives, Faces, Problem

  "Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim's 10 Most Notable Quotes And Top 10 Business Principles" by Dolia Estevez, www.forbes.com. April 29, 2014.

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• 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.

  Carlos Slim

  Past, Destiny, Incentives

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• 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.

  Carlos Slim

  Emotional, Feelings, Mind

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• Mistakes are normal and human. Make them small, accept them, correct them, and forget them.

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  Mistake, Normal, Forget

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• Anyone who is not investing now is missing a tremendous opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Missing, Investing

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• 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.

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  Team, Goal, Different

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. December 3, 2010.

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• All businesses make mistakes. The trick is to avoid large ones.

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  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Tricks

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• Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

  Carlos Slim

  Yield, Optimism, Rewards

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

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  Focus, Trying, Essentials

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

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  Tools, Good Times, All Time

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

  Carlos Slim

  Thinking, Others Opinions, Entrepreneur

  "Carlos Slim: The world's wealthiest man" by Paul Harris, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2010.

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• Choose the right employees and then set them loose.

  Carlos Slim

  Employee

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• Courage taught me no matter how bad a crisis gets… any sound investment will eventually pay off.

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  Sound, Pay, Matter

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• Poverty isn’t solved with donations.

  Carlos Slim

  Poverty, Donation

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

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  Country, Children, Giving

  "Carlos Slim: The Richest Man You've Never Heard Of". abcnews.go.com. October 8, 2007.

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

  Carlos Slim

  People, World, Care

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

  Carlos Slim

  Relax, Quality, Three

  "Carlos Slim calls for three-day working week to improve quality of life" by Helen Davidson, www.theguardian.com. July 21, 2014.

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• Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear.

  Carlos Slim

  Faces, Problem, Disappear

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• When we decide to do something, we do it quickly.

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

  Carlos Slim

  Technology, Alliances, Partnership

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• You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

  Carlos Slim

  Organization, People, Mediocrity

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

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  Mistake, Making Mistakes, Important

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• You have to have an international reference of competition. You have to go beyond your home.

  Carlos Slim

  Home, Competition, International

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