“My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 th...” — Carlos Slim Quote

“My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.”

“When I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.”

“We think that in Mexico, online trading of shares and financial instruments is not going to be as important as it is in the U.S. On days that there is a banking holiday in the U.S., you hardly see any movement here on the stock exchange.”

“I couldn't have cared less about Gucci when I first went there - but soon after I arrived, I cared a lot.”

“I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.”

“When I arrived, at first a lot of people were like, 'This kid is different.'”