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If you do a survey in a public place asking people what is the success? He would probably receive numerous answers related to the accumulation of wealth. Today, to give a bit of “chicken soup” to the soul of our readers e will evaluate the conception that the Mexican Carlos Slim has of success.
Slim says verbatim the following:
- The success is due to how many people smile at you, how many people you love and how many admire your sincerity and the simplicity of your spirit.
- Is about if you are remembered when you are gone.
- It refers to how many people you help, how much you avoid damaging and whether you keep a grudge in your heart.
- It’s about that your dreams are included in your triumphs.
- Of if your achievements do not hurt your fellowmen.
- It’s about your inclusion with others, not your control over others.
- It’s about whether you used your head as much as your heart; if you were selfish or generous; if you loved nature and children; and you worried about the elderly.
- It’s about your goodness, your desire to serve, your ability to listen and your value in behavior.
- It is not about how many follow you but how many really love you.
- It is not about transmitting, but how many believe you if you are happy or pretend to be.
- It is about the balance of justice that leads to good to have and good to be.
- It’s about your quiet conscience, your undefeated dignity and your desire to be more, not to have more.
- This is success. (End of quote)
And do you know who Carlos Slim is? Well, he is neither more nor less the most affluent man in Latin America, with a patrimony of US $ 62.5 billion. Carlos Slim built a business empire based on the recovery of the Mexican rail network, then developing a chain of restaurants and retail stores and controlling the powerful Telmex, monopoly of telephony in Mexico. Today, his group has undertaken an energetic activity of acquisition of telecommunications companies worldwide, including the basic network of El Salvador, 51% of the shares of the French CTE Telecom and the control of the prepaid wireless communications firm of Miami ToppTelecom.
Do not you find it curious, dear readers, that this 78-year-old tycoon conceives in such a human and sensitive way what the face of success should be? Do not you think that after reading this note many of you will feel that you have achieved real success in your lives?
While we collect the account of the people who love us and at least sympathize with us, I will dismiss this column with a phrase that Slim told Newsweek: “You cannot wait until you die to leave a legacy … you have to do everything you can while you are alive. ”
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