For several years, the list of "Forbes" (authoritative and well-known economic publication in the world) is headed by the richest people are not well-known Bill Gates.To date, the name of the man known around the world.This Mexican Carlos Slim.In 2010 the tycoon created a furore, becoming the first leader of the ranking of the richest people, not being a US citizen, sliding the other applicants.This is due to the fact that the shares of the company "America Molvil" dramatically increased in cost by 27%.Currently, the richest man owns a 62% stake in the corporation.
started his career Mexican Arab origin back in the age of twelve.He invested his small savings to the company Banco Nacional de Mexico.His entrepreneurial spirit is obliged to his father Carlos.He taught his sons from an early age in a special notebook to record all expenses and revenues, thereby generating a habit to monitor the financial condition of the balance.
At seventeen years, the future richest man had weekly earnings of 200 pesos, laboring in the company of his father.Later, Carlos goes on a specialty "Civil engineering" at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.He teaches in the same parallel linear algebra and programming.After graduation, Carlos starts trader, gradually forming his own firm, which later greatly expanded by profitable investments in other companies.
since 1965. The company Sliema includes various other investment firms, construction and mining companies, etc.Already in 1966, his fortune was estimated at $ 40 million.From 1972 to 1976 it is expanding its business by buying the company for the production and rental of construction equipment for the mining industry, as well as shares in printing, food, restaurant and tobacco business.
In 1982, due to a sharp drop in oil prices, the Mexican economy was hit hard.But here's richest man has managed to find a way out.He buys at bargain prices stock companies, thus becoming their full or partial owner.As a result, Carlos Slim takes almost all sectors of business and various economic niches, gradually enters the world market.
At the moment, Slim owns one of the largest holdings - GrupoCarso, which controls a number of companies (mostly in the field of communication) in Mexico and in other countries.
At the end of last year the state Carlos Slim was 75.5 billion dollars, equivalent to 8% of annual GDP in Mexico.
richest man in the world does not forget about his native country.His name fund allocates huge sums to finance cultural and educational projects, as well as on the development of public health in Mexico.Carlos Slim Foundation sponsored the construction of the museum fully "Soumaya" exhibition which contains treasures of world history, the work of da Vinci, Renoir, Picasso and other great artists.
