Carlos Slim Quotes

You can't accumulate anything, because anything you get you have to give away. We all know this. We watch our bodies go through the aging process. We know we came in here with nothing, and we know we're going to leave with nothing. There's nothing to own. There's nothing to get. The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away.

Do every act of your life as if it were your last.

People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

You live till you die, and that's the end of it. What good is your legacy when you are dead? I worry about being alive, selling work, having fun, moving and doing things when I am alive.

He who shouts “long live” has to pay for the funeral.

Everyone has to die someday. I'd rather die after doing something worthwhile.

So we're in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and... basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go.

I don't want to take anything to the grave. I want to die used up and emptied out. I don't want to carry around anything I don't have to. I want to travel light.

We are born into this world with clenched fists, we leave it with fingers apart- preaching the lesson that you take nothing with you.

I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won't need any pockets.

The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away.

Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some mark behind. Otherwise, where is the difference between you and the trees and stones? They too come into existence, decay and die.

A termination of one's life is necessary in the scheme of things to provide a logical reason for unselfishness. . . . The fact that there is an end to one's life compels one to take an interest in things that will continue to live after one is dead.

There is poetry as soon as we realize that we possess nothing.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

You come to the planet with nothing and you leave with nothing, so you'd better do some good while you are here.

Death is an art, you know.

It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

Your body must become familiar with its death - in all its possible forms and degrees - as a self-evident, imminent, and emotionally neutral step on the way towards the goal you have found worthy of your life.

We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

I am so thrilled by the privilege of life, and yet at the same time I know that I have to let it go.

After I die, I'll be forgotten.