Letter to young people by Carlos Slim

Re:Letter to young people by Carlos Slim by nickpp on Monday March 15, 2010 @03:30PM (#1193841)

Wow so much bullshit it's overflowing. Bland, boring "advice". I'd much rather hear some of his REAL life stories.

How exactly do you manage to amass such a humongous amount of money from one of the poorest, most corrupt countries on Earth?

How do you stay alive instead of falling pray to the crime families running half of the said country.

How do you grow in under a corrupt government and corrosive business climate?

That's what I would REALLY like to hear. I bet they'd be some pretty interesting teachings...

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Re:Letter to young people by Carlos Slim by chasingsparks on Monday March 15, 2010 @04:34PM (#1194034)

I'd be more interested in that as well, but I wouldn' call this "bullshit." I enjoy it for the same reason I enjoy reading and rereading Max Ehrmann's Desiderata, Rudyard Kipling's If--, etc.

Truisms blindly followed are not worth much, but the reevaluation of truisms in the context of your experiences can be very worthwhile.

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