Carlos Slim Helú: What do you value most in your friends? — FLAPSS

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What do you value most in your friends?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.

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Carlos Slim Helú

Businessman and investor; chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil

Recorded said elsewhere, not written here

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

user, interview, QuoteFancy, 1 June 2026 source ↗

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I want you to panic ... .

Recorded The Atlantic, 31 August 2026 source ↗

A.J. Jacobs Journalist and author of The Year of Living Biblically

Being willing to listen to my ideas and tell me when they are good and when they are dumb.

Recorded Naomi Imatome-Yun, Blue Zones interview, November 2018 source ↗

Their willingness to have me as a friend.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 December 2010 source ↗

They want to leave the party the same time I do.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 July 2015 source ↗

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Question Who do you turn to when you need advice? Relationships

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

Recorded user, interview, QuotesGram, 1 June 2024 source ↗

Question How would you describe yourself in three words? Identity & self

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.

Recorded user, interview, Goodreads, 1 June 2024 source ↗

Question What problem are you still trying to solve? Craft & work

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

Recorded user, interview, QuotesGram, 1 June 2024 source ↗

Question Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought? Money & investment

I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.

Recorded user, interview, QuotesGram, 1 June 2024 source ↗

Question How has a failure, or apparent failure, set you up for later success? Do you have a favourite failure? Failure & regret

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 ↗

Question What does love feel like? Relationships

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.

Recorded user, interview, Goodreads, 1 June 2024 source ↗

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