The question
What did you want to be when you were growing up?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
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Businessman and investor; chairman of Grupo Carso and América Móvil
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
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Jobs that I saw on television, until I realised they were all played by actors – then I wanted to be an actor.
A vet, but I wasn’t smart enough.
I studied history and English at Yale, which I attended on an NROTC (Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps) scholarship. After college I served in the Navy five years.
I always wanted to play tennis. Otherwise, I always thought it would be fun to do something in mathematics or physics.
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.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
I buy companies for strategic reasons and operate them.
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