Skip to main content

Profitability is coming from ...

Profitability is coming from productivity, efficiency, management, austerity, and the way to manage the business.

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

If Wal-Mart invests a billion...

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

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

You need to support human dev...

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 56 quotes

At 25, I made many companies....

At 25, I made many companies. I was thinking more like a businessman or entrepreneur than a CEO. I created many companies, small companies, medium companies. I tried to be involved in many kinds of activities, in finance, in real estate, in mining.

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

In high school, I loved histo...

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 56 quotes

I studied engineering in the ...

I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

We think that in Mexico, onli...

We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

We don't take anything when w...

We don't take anything when we pass away, and we need to do with the sense of responsibility.

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

With three work days a week, ...

With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. Having four days off would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied.

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

You cannot have people in you...

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

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

I still have my laptop but I ...

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

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

When we face our problems, th...

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

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

It's not a question of arrivi...

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 56 quotes

Technology is going to transf...

Technology is going to transform people's lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what's going on and try to see where we can fit in.

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

Money is not a goal. The goal...

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.

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

Firm and patient optimism alw...

Firm and patient optimism always yields its rewards.

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

I am convinced that all this ...

I am convinced that all this poverty in Mexico and in Latin America, like it's happening in China is the opportunity to grow. It's an opportunity for investment; it's an economic activity and to take out poverty is the best investment any person or a person can do in any place.

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

Staying occupied displaces pr...

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

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

My mother born in Mexico, but...

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 56 quotes

When you live for others' opi...

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

Carlos Slim 56 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

23

Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

83

Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

115

Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

219

Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

541

Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

165

Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....