My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.

It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.

All times are good time for those who know how to work and have the tools to do so.

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others. Just as I think it's important to run companies well, with a close eye to the bottom line, I think you have to use your entrepreneurial experience to make corporate philanthropy effective.

You cannot have people in your organization who are pessimists. They take you to mediocrity.

In this new wave of technology, you can't do it all yourself, you have to form alliances.

The truth is, you leave this world with nothing. What you are is a temporary administrator, and you must administer well... the wealth in your care, and generate more. The surplus can be used to do many things for people.