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Businessman and investor; chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil
Mexico · b. 1940
Carlos Slim Helú is a Mexican businessman and investor whose holdings span telecommunications, construction, mining and retail. He was ranked the wealthiest person in the world by Forbes from 2010 to 2013.
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Well yes, but like I said, small mistakes or small failures. We take small failures very often. We have failures in investment. We have failures in operation, but no big mistakes or big failures. How do we take that? Like ordinary business.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 2 December 2007 source ↗
The first thing to recommend is that they don’t work in some place that they don’t like, that they don’t do things that they don’t like. That they look for what they really want to do and what kind of thing they want to be involved in, or if they want to go it alone by themselves, to find that.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, 2 December 2007 source ↗
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