Tang Dynasty In the poem " Pipa Xing " by Bai Juyi, "Businessmen pay more attention to profit than parting", women are most afraid of marrying a ruthless person. But in real life, this is not always the case, at least the Mexican telecommunications giant Carlos Slim Helu is not like this.
once became the richest man in the world. As a Mexican telecommunications giant, 81-year-old Carlos Slim Helu has a net worth of 421 billion yuan. However, since his wife died 22 years ago, he often smokes cigars , sitting alone and speechless, has been living in widowhood and never remarried.
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来自墨西哥的电信业巨擎、墨西哥的最大股东、 Carlos Slim Helu, CEO of American Telecom in Mexico, has a net worth of 421 billion yuan on the 2021 Hurun Global Rich List, ranking 21st in the world's richest list. He once reached the top " The richest man in the world" is currently also the "richest man in Mexico".
From ancient times to the present, businessmen are ruthless and ungrateful in the eyes of ordinary people. Otherwise, Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, would not have written "Businessmen pay more attention to profit than parting." "Jiangnan Song " wrote: "Married to Qutang Jia, the court missed the concubine's date. If I knew the tide had faith, I would marry the tide." But the "merchantless businessman" will not work for the 81-year-old Carlos.
Even if Carlos never had the dream of being the "world's richest man", since the day he topped the list of the world's richest people, apart from the envious eyes and the flamboyance, there are more criticisms and ridicules. Many Mexicans believe that the oligopoly in the telecommunications industry has allowed Carlos to make a lot of money. It is a shame for the Mexicans that he can become a rich man.
In Mexico, in addition to telecommunications, Carlos's fields touch every aspect of everyone's daily life, and many industries have his imprint. Some people say that every day when a Mexican opens his eyes, he keeps putting money into his "account".
It is not an exaggeration to say this. In the "2021 Shimao Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Port City·Hurun Global Rich List" released by the Hurun Research Institute in March this year, 412 new billionaire entrepreneurs were added worldwide, bringing the total to 3,228, a new record. The record high, and the only Mexican rich man on the list is Carlos Slim Helu, which shows that Mexico's wealth structure is so highly concentrated.
Carlos and his wife Soumaya Domit
In 1999, when Carlos was at the peak of his career, his wife Soumaya Domit, who had been with him for more than 30 years, died of kidney disease. Carlos, who was 59 years old at the time, was in great pain. His children often saw his father sitting alone and speechless, smoking a cigar to relieve loneliness and loneliness.
Carlos, who is "incomparably rich", was the richest man in the world in 2011. Unlike the oligarch in the eyes of outsiders, he is thrifty and affectionate. In the past 22 years, he has been living alone and never Remarried and regarded his beloved wife Somaya as his only companion in his life.
Carlos Slim Helu, 194Born on January 28, 200 in Mexico City in a Lebanese immigrant family, ranking fifth among six siblings. It could also be that he came from a family of Maronite Christian immigrants from Lebanon, and besides business, he was an emotional person.
In 1966, at the age of 26, Carlos married his wife, Somaya. At that time, Carlos was coming out of business setbacks and found his own business path. Accompanied by his wife Somaya for 33 years, the two walked together through ups and downs. Carlos deliberately took care of his beloved wife in a low-key manner, and rarely let her show up in public.
Carlos and his wife Somaya have 6 children, three sons and three daughters. Although Beloved Wife Somaya is not "shown", it does not mean that she does not exist in the huge business empire owned by Carlos. Carlos is the largest shareholder of Telemex, and he is also the CEO of Telemex Mexico. He also holds the Mexican Carso Group, whose business network and tentacles are all over the world. Grupo Carso, which has many diversified subsidiaries, is named after Carlos and Somaya.
Mexico's Grupo Carso Group (Grupo Carso) is named after the abbreviation of Carlos and Somaya, which shows how deep friendship Carlos has with his beloved wife. Among them, "Car" is the first three letters of Carlos Slim Helu's name, and "so" is taken from the first two letters of his wife Soumaya Domit's name. The husband and wife live in harmony with each other in their family life, and they also show "glue like paint" to outsiders in business.
Carlos is with his family
In 2017, the international charity organization " Oxfam " once published a report, saying that about half of the world's personal wealth is gathered in the hands of 8 people, including Microsoft at that time founder Bill Gates, fashion brand Zara owner Amancio Ortega, "stock god" Buffett , Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos, Amazon founder Bezos, Facebook founder Zuckerberg, Oracle president Larry Ellison, and former New York mayor and Bloomberg boss Michael Bloomberg.
At that time, Mark Goldring, President of Oxfam UK, released this report to describe global wealth inequality in this way: A group of rich people whose number is less than enough to fill a golf cart owns more than half of the world’s wealth , which is surprising. It also means that 1 in 9 people in the world will go hungry tonight, but it will take generations for a handful of billionaires to spend their fortunes.
Unlike many wealthy people who are busy with business and have no time to take care of their children’s growth, the Carlos family, although the “mixed blood” of Mexican Latin and Lebanese descent, still retains traditional Lebanese family values. Usually, Carlos often gathers with his children to enjoy a happy family life.
Many people have misunderstandings and disagreements about familyization, but in fact, the world is full of various types of large and small family businesses, and there are data showing that family businesses perform better than non-family businesses in terms of operation, and the survival time of businesses Also longer.
The road to everlasting growth of a family business inevitably touches on the core issue of inheritance and succession. Carlos is now in his eighties, and he will gradually hand over his company to his children. In 1998, Carlos underwent a heart operation. After the operation, he also arranged his sons and sons-in-law to various positions in the company step by step. In terms of inheritance, he upholds the concept of "no separation of families" and tries his best to ensure that his consortium will not be separated due to "Scattered branchesIt also prevents internal conflicts.
In 2004, Carlos handed over the chairman of the board of directors of Telmex, the core consortium under his consortium, to his eldest son Slim Domit, and retired as the honorary chairman of the board. With Carlos, the intergenerational inheritance project of "helping the horses" was launched.
's eldest son, Domit, did not directly enter the management after finishing his university major in business management.往旗下最不显眼的一家连锁店做一名普通采购员。后来，多米特逐渐担任要职，也是他建议下，父亲将产业触角延伸到美国及全球各地。
风起黎巴嫩，机会垂青有心人
卡洛斯With parents and siblings
In July this year, the famous Lebanese businessmanNajib Mikati (Najib Mikati) won enough votes in parliamentary negotiations to be designated as the prime minister of the new government. Many people know During the Lebanon War , many people have tasted the wonderful Lebanese wine from West Asia, but they are more famous than Lebanese businessmen.
The powerful global immigrants from Lebanon have made many rich Lebanese immigrants such as Carlos, the Mexican telecommunications giant. , Distributed all over the world. Due to the war, Lebanon, a livable paradise in the Middle East , has turned into a chaotic hell on earth. In fact, Lebanese are rich in business traditions and are also famous for their unity. As early as 3,000 years ago In the past, the Phoenicians here created a brilliant commercial civilization. For a long time, Lebanon was also one of the shipping centers along the Mediterranean coast.
Carlos’ father, Julian Slim Haidati, was a A native Lebanese. We know that the Ottoman clock tower, the landmark building in the center of Tripoli, was built in 1901-1902 as a gift for the then Ottoman Empire Sultan Abdul Hamid to celebrate his 25th reign as a gift to his people. That is, in 1902, in order to escape the persecution of the Turks , Julian crossed the Atlantic Ocean and settled in Mexico City. Star" dry goods store started, and later bought a piece of land in the city center, invested in real estate, and got a good return.
movie " Mexican Storm "
There is a movie "Mexican Storm", whose background is the famous "Mexican Storm" movement in Mexican history. At that time, the turbulent Mexico City made people panic. Carlos' father Julian dared to invest in real estate and was also a successful business venture.
Julian married a wife who was the daughter of a Lebanese merchant. The fifth child, Carlos, was born on January 28, 1940. When he was a child, Carlos went to his father's dry goods store every day, listening to his father chatting with customers. He was influenced by his ears and eyes, and subtly injected Lebanese business genes. .
In order to train his business skills, his father gave him pocket money of 5 pesos every week, but he was required to record how the money was spent. In the future, Carlos achieved business success, but his office always kept the book that his father asked him to keep accounts when he was a child. Back then, in his spare time, his father would also take time to look at his account books and analyze whether every sum of money that Carlos spent was appropriate and how to spend the money better.
When Carlos was 11 years old, his father Julian gave him a sum of money to try investing for the first time in his life. Carlos bought government bonds , and gained a lot of money. Since then, he has been out of control. By the time he was 15 years old, he was already a shareholder of the largest bank in Mexico City. When Carlos was 17 years old, he learned to speculate in stocks and started venture capital .
After Julian passed away, he left a good legacy to Carlos' five siblings. Carlos later recalled his father: " my father was my best mentor. He taught me how important courage is to a person. He was a successful businessman, but he was also an excellent father. "
Carlos is a "rich second generation" from a Lebanese immigrant family. In the early 1960s, he graduated from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, where he studied engineering technology. Some people say that Carlos became a stockbroker in Mexico City after graduation, looking for the right time to acquire an industrial company he was optimistic about. In fact, in 1962, Carlos first became a teacher, but because of his enthusiasm for business, he finally gave up teaching and started business, starting from his good investment.
From construction, real estate, mining, tobacco, and manufacturing, Carlos has been exploring business opportunities with his keen sense of smell. In just a few years, his business has grown to a small scale.
In the early 1980s, Mexico was a leader in the economy of Latin America. With the advancement of the "Mexicanization" decree promulgated by the Mexican government in 1973, both state-owned enterprises and private enterprises have achieved good development and strengthened the nation economy. But in the mid-to-late 1980s, and even the 1990s, the Mexican economy has been faltering; especially since the mid-1980s, the Mexican economy has fallen into a period of stagnation and turmoil, and the high external debt is almost on the verge of collapse.
Opportunity always favors the willing. Just when Mexico’s economy was stagnant and the debts were heavy, Carlos continued to “buy, buy, buy” and acquired many listed companies at “floor prices”, including Telmex, the Mexican national telephone company he bought in 1990.
is in the hands of Carlos. After five years, Telmex has been transformed into a large modern telecommunications company by him. Carlos controls 90% of Mexico's communications business. In addition, the American mobile company he controls also makes him richer day by day.
By the way, the shrewd Carlos has branded himself as a nationalist. In the eyes of Mexicans who have been hit by unsatisfactory economic development, serious wealth inequality, rampant corruption, poor government governance, and rampant drug trade, Telecommunications tycoon Carlos is the "economic hero" of the Mexicans. Successful business leaders have one thing in common, that is, they are good at empathy and arouse the empathy of others.
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