>
>> Nation of Employees
>> by John Gokongwei
>>
>> That is why most Filipinos like to be employees. We are contented to
be
>> a nation of employees. Children are being taught to study hard so
that
>> when they grow up, they will become managers or vice-presidents, but
>> never as an employer.
>>
>> We have exported over five million overseas Filipino workers. They
are
>> our heroes. They contribute P7-8 billion every year to our economy.
We
>> should thank them. But has it ever occurred to you that they are
merely
>> employed? That we don't see a Filipino town abroad, but we see a
>> Chinatown, a Vietnamese town or a Japanese town all engaged in
thriving
>> businesses?
>>
>> We have this trait of wanting to be employees. While our neighbors --
>> the Chinese and the Japanese -- give their children their own
>> businesses -- one hardware for a son, one hardware for another,
>> Filipinos will give their children houses, cars, jewelry, time
>> deposits, but never a business. We don't want to see our children
>> become businessmen.
>>
>> We believe in a myth that have been put into our minds by the
Spaniards
>> and the Americans -- the myth that entrepreneurship is all about
making
>> money. But I am telling you, I have been an entrepreneur all my life
>> and I am not doing it for money. Do you believe that Henry Sy and
John
>> Gokongwei still want to do business at the age of 75 because they
want
>> to make more money?
>>
>> Entrepreneurship as an art
>>
>> Entrepreneurship is an art and I see myself as an artist. My business
>> is my work of art. You cannot ask John Gokongwei to stop because he
>> likes what he is doing. How do you tell a painter to stop painting, a
>> composer to stop composing or a poet to stop making poems? They are
>> doing these things because they like doing them.
>>
>> In the same manner, an entrepreneur likes to do business. That makes
>> him an artist. That is why I tell this to audiences all over the
>> country: You must understand that you and your children and your
>> students will be in better position if you can become entrepreneurs.
>> Don't you want to be the masters of your fate? Or, as they say, the
>> captains of your destinies? Don't you want to be truly independent
and
>> free? You will go through difficulties in putting up your own
>> businesses, but these are the difficulties that make success very
>> sweet. There is an intrinsic satisfaction in succeeding in business
and
>> being independent."
>
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