The question
What has been your biggest disappointment?Originally asked
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Businessman and investor; chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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The reviews of my latest film.
I am always disappointed in myself. I always feel that I haven’t achieved enough, or been as good a parent as I could be.
Not being Bond.
Not going to the World Cup in 1986 and not going to the World Cup in 1998.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don’t add value to the bottom line.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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.
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.
It takes a combination of ways to do these things, more than discipline. It’s a way of life. It’s like diet or gymnastics. You can know all the gymnastic things, all the exercises. You can know all the diets, but if you don’t do the diets, if you don’t do the exercise, it won’t work. It’s the same if you have some rules, but you don’t live them. It doesn’t work.
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