Billionaire Carlos Slim Best Advice

"I believe in circumstances, and I think that you make your own destiny, but your own destiny depends on the circumstances, and that in some way, you can say that circumstances take you to some destiny, but I believe in the freedom to create your own future. Because if it's not there, it's another place, but you will find it. "

" if you're in business you need to understand the environment. You need to have a vision of the future, and for that you need to know the past. That is very important. But also, on the personal side. A businessman cannot be only business. You need to have more interests. Life offers a lot of interests, many things to know, to learn, to feel, to live."

"You remember in the Bible, Joseph makes an interpretation of the dreams of the Pharaoh, and he says, "You will have seven years of fat cows and then seven years of starving cows. So in the years of the fat cows, let's save grain for the years of the skinny cows." That means, in the new economy, the fat cows are superávit (surplus) and the starving cows are the deficit."

"it's a social responsibility to make wealth produce more wealth, for at the end of the day it will go to society."