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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?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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A guitar – a 1959 Gibson 335.
Champagne.
Fireworks. I was given a pyrotechnics course by my son for my 40th birthday, so I do displays. I can average five to 10 grand on one display.
A $100,000 Mercedes.
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.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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