When you live for others' opinions, you are dead.
You have to have an international reference of competition. You have to go beyond your home.
I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others
You cannot live without doing something.
Technology is going to transform people's lives and society everywhere in the world. I spend most of my time studying new technologies. My main task is to understand what's going on and try to see where we can fit in.
Work well done is not only a responsibility to yourselves and society; it is also an emotional need.
When there is a crisis, that's when some are interested in getting out and that's when we are interested in getting in.
No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.
If you are in business, you are not enjoying. You are working.
The key is the Internet. The United States is by far the most advanced country in this new digital culture, so we have to be there. The Internet is the heart of this new civilization, and telecommunications are the nervous system, or circulatory system.
I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the bricks are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.
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.
I still have my laptop but I haven't used it. I'm a paper man, not electronic.
Building a business and becoming a billionaire is it's not championship. It's the competence; the competence in your sector with other companies not looking to have some kind of records in this issue.
It's not a question of arriving and putting in a whole new administration, but instead, arriving and "compacting" things as much as possible, reducing management layers. 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.
Well, when I was very young, maybe 12 years, I began to make investments.
The biggest things in life are not materials.
With three work days a week, we would have more time to relax; for quality of life. Having four days off would be very important to generate new entertainment activities and other ways of being occupied.
I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and history, and I have always enjoyed that.
I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.
You cannot make thousands of universities or hundreds of thousands of professors, but with technology and the Internet you can have great courses and make a digital university.
My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.
I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.
I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso.
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