Businessman and investor; chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil
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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What do you value most in your friends?Originally asked
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Businessman and investor; chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil
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 ↗
I haven't met one of these exonerated individuals who can sleep. Virtually all of them have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder.
Being able to share a confidence.
I always enjoy talking with players to find out what they want to achieve because each individual is different. I think once you understand what their objectives are and what they want to achieve, you are looking to find that commitment from them.
Their willingness to put up with my endless explanations about why I can’t see them because I’m under deadline.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
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.
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.
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