El discurso de Tomás Fuertes, presidente de ElPozo, en los premios Fénix que se ha hecho viral

Well, I believe that in life, honestly, one should not fight for awards, but for deeds. And that's what I've always tried to do. One must be grateful, especially to society, and these awards that are consensual with many people, not just one opinion, but several opinions. And really, we, Murcia, this also treats our region. I was born in Murcia, I live in Murcia and I would like to die in Murcia. It means that I have a great feeling. I am Murcian, I am Spanish, I am European and I am of the world, but the truth is that all our business projects, the majority percentage of our business group, Grupo Fuertes, is in Murcia, right? And we have believed in it because I have traveled all over the world, many countries, and really, I have always wished to return to Murcia, and I believe that Murcia is a region that has a future. There are other regions that are more advanced, but we have neighbors like Alicante and Almería, neighbors that have progressed a lot, and Murcia has a greater path than our neighbors. And we believe that Murcia is always, as long as politicians know how to apply well, say, the good action of creating wealth and creating jobs. What do we businessmen know? It is a region to invest in, right? It is a region to invest in that has a future.

Well, our group that is 70 years old is composed of two groups of 35, that is, the first 35 years were very modest. Our project was born from humility, from work, from honesty, from illusion, from the desire to do something, because if you are born, you have to do something, right? Because if not, why were you born? Then, in these first years, my father, who was the one who started, we are children of a peasant and a huertana from here in Murcia. They were years, let's say, very simple and modest. My childhood, well, I went to school and did my studies starting at 10 at night, from 10 to 12, right? Because in the morning I helped my father. Of course. I have never worked. I have never worked. I have had fun because I have been lucky enough to find my vocation, and I say this very publicly, it is important to dig into oneself to see the vocation one has to be happy. Being happy and I would say that it helps you a lot to fight better in life. Therefore, I am very happy with my trajectory, and although many here know me, I have an equation that, of course, age is not what tells you the identity card, but the sum of that equation: the identity card, the mind, and the spirit. I have a very young spirit, a middle-aged mind, and a few more years on the ID card. A chronological combination, right? Of everything.

I believe that and it is not an excessive ambition, but a person, no matter how old they are, should never change what they are going to do for what they have done, because what they have done already does not belong to you, it belongs to humanity, to society, to the economy, to science. That is already done. It happens like a painter when they have finished, once the painting is done, it is no longer theirs, it is of art, of the economy, of society. What we have left is what is worth, and we must have illusion. There is a drug that is not sold in pharmacies called illusion, and illusion must never be missing.

I would tell you one thing, I believe that illusion is being lost, work is being lost, right? We are so focused on surviving that we sometimes lose illusion even in small projects. But if you look for it, you find it. If you look for it, you will find it. For sure. But you have to want, you have to want, you have to want to look for it. You have to want to look for it.

A light. Well, I believe that a person must seek, as I have commented, if you are born you have to do something because I believe that we humans are endowed with body, mind, and soul to be able to, let's say, contribute something. And I believe that success in life is not about, and I will say it publicly, being the most famous or the most important or the one with the most money. To succeed in life, it is the one who has known how to manage the 'I', limited company, the one who has been able to discover, because there are many people who die without having realized that they were phenomena, but laziness, three types of laziness: physical, psychic, and emotional, has not let them bring to light with courage what they truly have. And we have to help those people who say they cannot and those people who do not look for anything other than justification and do not look for solutions, and life is problems. But for that, God has been so generous that he has left us eyes, hands, brain, ears, legs, he has left means for us to face difficulties, because life is difficulties. I say that I am a day laborer of problems and we must be, and doctors must also be day laborers of humanity and health. We must have love because in life there is no need to work. Let's see if it is achieved in the Royal Academy to change the word work for activity. The word work might tire some people just hearing it. If a person does not have an activity, they cannot demonstrate what they are worth. You have to dig. Dig in yourself and you will find. Do something because that is why you were born. However, if any person wonders if they had not been born, what would they have done? Well, since you were born, you have done something. Please, I love it.