The name Carlos Slim has become synonymous with business success and economic power. As the richest man on Earth for three years in a row with a net personal worth of $69 billion. Slim has become a key guru of our time. Starting to build his fortune at the age of 14, CARLOS SLIM, the authorized biography, reveals the boy and the man behind the name inspiring readers to achieve their own destiny. Appealing to both the seasoned and the young, Slim was worth $40 million by the age of 26. This is the biography everyone has been waiting for complete with advice from the richest man on Earth on how to maintain a balanced life. Slim still has dinner every Monday with his entire immediate family in their Mexico home. Slim is everyone's "businessman" with not only extensive holdings in Mexico, including the country's telephone service provider, Telmex, but deep American business investments including Firestone and the New York Times. He is a blueprint for how to turn adversity into success.