The son of Mexican maganate considers the fact that Carlos Slim has become the world’s richest man is not cause for celebration, because it has always invested and now it is the beginning to get fruit out of the investment. Carlos Slim, the son of an immigrant who worked as a shopkeeper and collected a fortune of 53 thousand 500 million dollars and bought a majority stake in The New York Times, is the first person from a developing nation to be named by Forbes as the richest person in the world.
Slim overtook U.S. billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buyffet to occupy the top spot in the list of world’s richest people, published Thursday by the journal.Carlos Slim is the owner of Telmex, the largest fixed telephony in Mexico, the largest cellular operator in the country, America Movil, as well as companies operating in areas very different from retail stores and restaurants to banks and companies construction and metallurgy, as part of Grupo Carso.
However, he is known for bringing a lifestyle rather austere for its fabulous wealth. Not wearing expensive suits, rarely seen on the best restaurants and refuses to buy houses in other cities.
The nine Mexicans are notified on Forbes list.After being released that Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim became the richest man in the world, his son Arturo Elias Ayub believed that the list of the richest is based only on the numbers of a magazine, so not concerned, but felt that the nomination is itself a sign of confidence in Mexico.
The reaction is pleased” that there is confidence in Mexico, and confidence in the group companies,’ ‘he said.
”In times of crisis, he (Slim) has always invested and are now beginning to see the fruits.”
Never before, someone born in a developing country had occupied that site, but Slim’s son-considered is the reference by the magazine not a cause for celebration.
In a meeting with foreign correspondents in Mexico in August 2007, Slim found himself of being identified as unimportant in the world’s richest man.
”If I am the first or the twenty or number two thousand, it does not matter,” he said
The tycoon has said over his business and professional accomplishments, his greatest pride is his family.