Carlos Slim Helú: What is your greatest fear?

The question

Originally asked

Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Carlos Slim Helú

Businessman and investor; chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

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.

user, interview, QuoteFancy, 1 June 2026 source ↗

Others on this question

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Keith McNally

My children dying before me.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, January 2026 source ↗

Gloria Steinem Writer and feminist organiser

Dying just a millisecond before I was about to say something I really wanted the people I love to hear.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, September 2020 source ↗

Kerry Godliman

Losing my mind.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 September 2023 source ↗

Sally Field Actor

A bumpy flight … or driving with my son Sam, who drives great, but I still can’t believe he’s old enough.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2016 source ↗