Carlos Slim Quotes

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do.

I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency.

It is the idle man, not the great worker, who is always complaining that he has no time or opportunity.

The principle of work is part of self-discipline. Now, my dear young sisters, I have lived a good many years longer than you, but even back in Grandpa's time there was something to make you want to lie down and go to sleep-they called it work.

When you’re out there partying, horsing around, someone out there at the same time is working hard. Someone is getting smarter and someone is winning. Just remember that.

Work first, and then rest.

Very few people know how to work. Inspiration, everybody has inspiration. That's just hot air.

When I am idle and shiftless, my affairs become confused; when I work, I get results ... not great results, but enough to encourage me.

If you rest too long the weeds take the garden.

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

I always try to work hard and get things done as soon as possible, but never at the loss of quality of the product.

Work will take everything you give it. It's up to you to work out what you want to give it.

Success is not an accident. When you put yourself in the right place at the right time, then you're likely to be more successful because of how you prepare yourself on a daily basis.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious. They are your success capital, and you cannot afford to heedlessly throw them away or trifle with them.

Every hour of useful work is precious.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

There is never just one thing that leads to success for anyone. I feel it always a combination of passion, dedication, hard work, and being in the right place at the right time.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

After graduating college, I was coming out of a routine I'd been in for several years, all the way back to high school. It was a year-round process of constantly having to work and be disciplined, and I was able to understand and connect the dots between all those characteristics - especially hard work and success.

If you need things, you work harder to get them.

Long hours don't necessarily mean success.

Success is not just about being a hard worker, it is about becoming a smart worker.

I worked every night, and I'd go 25, 35, 45 minutes, and that is what made me, and that is that I knew how to work, and I knew how to work the people.