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If you fail, do not be discouraged.
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Discouraged
Fail
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Our businesses also help promote socio-economic progress.
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Businesses
Promote
Socio-Economic
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I encourage you to have your own dream and work to make it a reality.
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Reality
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My basic strategy is to stick to my core business and to my area of expertise.
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Business
Core
Expertise
Strategy
Area
Basic
Stick
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I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered.
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Business
Discipline
Hard Work
Shoes
Work Hard Work Discipline
Started
Work Business Hard Work
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I have always believed that if we do well, we must also do something to help others in society.
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Always Believe
Helping Others
Wells
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SM Seaside City Cebu: soon to be the Philippines' Largest Mall and the 4th Largest in the World
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Cities
Sms
World
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In five years, I completed grade school. Even when I was a young boy, I had a plan for my life.
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Life My Life School
Completed
Grade
Grade School
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There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money.
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Easy
Hard Work
Substitutes
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Ever since I was a kid, I've always believed in doing my best, that one should aspire to be No. 1.
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Aspire
Best Always Doing
Believed
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There is no substitute for hard work. There is no such thing as an overnight success or easy money.
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Success
Work
Money
Easy
Hard
Hard Work
Overnight Success
Success Work Hard Work
Work Money Hard Work
Thing
Success Work Money
Substitute
Overnight
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I instilled in my children the importance of good values in business: hard work, determination, integrity, and optimism.
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Determination
Hard Work
Importance
Integrity
Work Good Business
Work Business Good
Instilled
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You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan, focus, work hard and be very determined to achieve your goals.
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Dream
Goal
Hard Work
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Our store was so small, it had no back or second floor. We just slept on the counter late at night after the store was closed.
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Counter
Closed
Floor
Slept
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You have to have a dream, whether big or small. Then plan well, focus, work hard, and be very determined to achieve your goals.
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Dream
Work
Achieve
Determined
Focus
Hard
Very
Then
Work Focus Your
Big
Work Goals Your
Goals
Small
Well
Plan
Whether
Work Hard
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My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate, and tourism development. Together they create synergy.
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Banking
Related
Retail
Shopping
Synergy
Tourism
Centers
Estate
Real Estate
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I took a risk and invested in SM Mall of Asia because I wanted to create something that could contribute to Philippine tourism growth.
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Asia
Growth
Risk
Tourism
Wanted
Contribute
Could
Create
Invested
Mall
Took
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I will not settle to become No. 2. Ever since I was a child, even before coming here to the Philippines, I've always believed in doing my best.
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Philippines
Best Always Will
Believed
Settle
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Every time the country is in a crisis, I think and decide where is the best way to go. We have to always think of ways to overcome these limitations.
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Best Way
Crisis
Time Best Always
Overcome
Best Time Always
Every Time
Limitations
Best Time Country
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I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.
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Discipline
Hard Work
Shoes
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I've always wanted to be a businessman. No other ambitions - I just wanted to be in business, even when I was a child in Fujian province, south China.
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Business
Ambition
Businessman
China
Wanted
Child
Province
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I am pleased that through SM Foundation, we are able to do many socio-civic projects and support college scholars in need who come from public schools.
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College
Foundation
Projects
Support
Public
Pleased
Public Schools
Scholars
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Outwardly, I may look quiet, but deep inside, I'm full of this sense of challenge. I'm always striving to work harder, to improve by learning, to do better and keep dreaming.
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Deep Inside
Dreaming
Striving
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The constant expansion of our malls and stores are proof of the fact that our holistic approach to development benefits not just us but also all the communities in which we operate.
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Approach
Benefits
Constant
Development
Expansion
Holistic
Malls
Proof
Communities
Operate
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I used to roller skate a lot in my youth on Taft Avenue, Manila. That is the reason there is always a skating area in all my SM malls. I want more people to share my love for skating.
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Malls
Avenue
More People
Roller
Skate
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Regional developers have a clear head start in their home communities. They have been there longer and understand their market. As a result, these markets are, in fact, more competitive than those in Manila.
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Clear
Developers
Head Start
Manila
Communities
Competitive
In Fact
Regional
Result
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My basic strategy is to stick to my core business, and to my area of expertise. My businesses are all related - retail, shopping centers, banking, real estate and tourism development. Together they create synergy.
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Real
Shopping
Together
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We strongly believe that the Philippines has huge potential in the tourism industry, given our beautiful islands, moderate weather conditions, good cuisine, and the flair of Filipinos for hospitality and entertainment.
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Conditions
Cuisine
Entertainment
Flair
Given
Hospitality
Huge
Industry
Islands
Philippines
Tourism
Tourism Industry
Weather
Moderate
Potential
Strongly
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In life and in business, you need to be good-hearted and trustworthy, and to have integrity. This is the way to build long-term relationships. It is also important to be optimistic and to look at challenges as opportunities.
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Optimistic
Opportunity
Integrity
Long
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Doing a mall is not only construction of the physical place: what is important is the merchandising mix. We strive to serve the convenience of the public. We want shopping at our malls to be a unique and an enjoyable experience.
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Experience
Construction
Enjoyable
Important
Merchandising
Shopping
Strive
Unique
Doing
Public
Place
Mall
Mix
Physical
Serve
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I came to the Philippines to follow my father who came here earlier, looking for a better life. I helped my father in our sari-sari store. I also asked him if I could go back to school so I could learn English and improve myself.
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Better Life
If I Could
Philippines
School
Life Myself Better
Asked
Back To School
English
Came
Earlier
Follow
Helped
Learn
Store
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Pride or ego is not important to me. What is more important is common sense, the welfare of the company, and the objective reality that we need to be cautious during difficult times. One should not make decisions based on emotions or ego.
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Cautious
Common
Common Sense
Company
Difficult
Difficult Times
Pride
Reality
Welfare
Decisions
Based
Emotions
Objective
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There is no such thing as overnight success or easy money. If you fail, do not be discouraged; try again. When you do well, do not change your ways. Success is not just good luck: it is a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. Success will not last if you do not take care of it.
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Opportunity
Good Luck
Hard Work
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