My Kindle Notes & Highlights The World's Richest Man: Carlos Slim In His Own Words, by Tanni Haas

in book •  7 years ago 

Economic cycles make sense in [an] agricultural civilization when you have good weather and bad weather. But in a society of services, it’s a psychological problem, no?

We want as few management layers as possible, so that executives are very close to the operations. We also don’t believe in having big corporate infrastructures.

Many people want to leave a better world for their children. I’m trying to leave better children for my world.

You don’t need to teach a man how to fish, as the Chinese used to say. Instead of giving him the fish, instead of teaching him how to fish, you have to teach him how to sell the fish so that he eats something else besides a fish.

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