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RICARDO-SALINAS-PLIEGO

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The banks did not want to serve 60 percent of Mexico. So I built a bank inside my stores. Now 16 million people have bank accounts who never had one before.

Bitcoin is the best form of money humanity has ever created. Fiat currencies are government IOUs that lose value every single year.

I buy during crises because that is when real assets go on sale. The 1995 peso crash was the best investment opportunity of my lifetime.

People call our interest rates high. I call them the price of access. Try getting a loan from a traditional bank with no credit score and no formal employment.

Build an ecosystem, not a company. Every Grupo Salinas business feeds the others. The TV drives customers to Elektra. Elektra drives customers to Banco Azteca.