Carlos Slim Quotes
How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you run the marathon, you run against the distance, not against the other runners and not against the time.
-
I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
-
There is a shortage of doctors, and the American Medical Association is aiming to keep it that way.
-
She was a great lady. We raised three boys, were together as long as she lived, and now she's passed on.
-
Just about anyone can make a good product, but it's the people that count. In the end, it's the employees who will take it from a kitchen-table idea to the next level. There are a lot of important things in business, but the people portion comes first.
-
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
-
The people of the State of Texas consist principally of men, women, and children, with a sprinkling of cowboys. The weather is very good, thermometer rarely rising above 2,500 degrees in the shade and hardly ever below 212.
-
I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
-
I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
-
In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
-
There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.
-
If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
-
I don't believe that anybody has come to a conclusion on why something is funny. It's funny because it's ridiculous and it's ridiculous for different reasons at different times.
-
I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
-
I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
-
I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
-
I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
-
I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
-
Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad.
-
Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting.
-
We would be silly to say that race issues don't exist in 2014.
-
It's show business. No show, no business.
-
Let those possess the land, and only those, Who love it with a love so strong and stupid That they may be abused and taken advantage of And made fun of by business, law, and art....
-
How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
