{"id":5375,"date":"2012-09-04T02:29:51","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T18:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=5375"},"modified":"2012-09-04T02:29:51","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T18:29:51","slug":"manny-villar-on-sm-vs-ayala-mvp-vs-ramon-ang-perspectives-by-wilson-lee-flores-the-philippine-star-lifestyle-features-sunday-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/04\/manny-villar-on-sm-vs-ayala-mvp-vs-ramon-ang-perspectives-by-wilson-lee-flores-the-philippine-star-lifestyle-features-sunday-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Manny Villar on SM vs. Ayala, MVP vs. Ramon Ang &#8211; PERSPECTIVES By Wilson Lee Flores &#8211; The Philippine Star \u00bb Lifestyle Features \u00bb Sunday Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By the way, I never got to ask you before where exactly is the address of your childhood home in Tondo, Manila?It\u2019s at 500 Moriones Street corner Santa Maria Street, Tondo, Manila. It\u2019s near the North Harbor. I recently bought this property \u2014 at three years to pay terms \u2014with a lot area of 270 square meters. It is two stories with a mezzanine. When I was a child, seven families were renting there. Our family was on the top floor; there were three families living there on the top floor.Your \u201crags-to-riches\u201d life story is similar to that Andrew Tan\u2019s; he told me his family used to rent an apartment tenement in Hong Kong shared with five other families when he was a kid. Your success secrets or tips?Be persistent. Continue improving what you\u2019re doing. Focus. Work hard. Overcome crisis with guts and determination. My worst crisis as an entrepreneur was the 1997 to 1998 period.\u00a0I persevered because I had no choice, sanay na ako sa bakbakan I\u2019m used to fighting for survival \u2014 it\u2019s either you end up with suicide, a heart attack or you will make it.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philstar.com\/Article.aspx?articleId=844222\">Manny Villar on SM vs. Ayala, MVP vs. Ramon Ang &#8211; PERSPECTIVES By Wilson Lee Flores &#8211; The Philippine Star \u00bb Lifestyle Features \u00bb Sunday Life<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the way, I never got to ask you before where exactly is the address of your childhood home in Tondo, Manila?It\u2019s at 500 Moriones Street corner Santa Maria Street, Tondo, Manila. It\u2019s near the North Harbor. I recently bought this property \u2014 at three years to pay terms \u2014with a lot area of 270 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/04\/manny-villar-on-sm-vs-ayala-mvp-vs-ramon-ang-perspectives-by-wilson-lee-flores-the-philippine-star-lifestyle-features-sunday-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Manny Villar on SM vs. Ayala, MVP vs. Ramon Ang &#8211; PERSPECTIVES By Wilson Lee Flores &#8211; The Philippine Star \u00bb Lifestyle Features \u00bb Sunday Life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}