Henry Sy. Henry Sy (Chinese: 施至成; born October 25, 1924) is a Chinese Filipino businessman and the founder of SM Group and chairman of SM Prime Holdings, the largest retailer and shopping mall operator in the Philippines. Acknowledged as the country’s "Retail King," he has come a long way from the modest shoe store he set up in Quiapo in 1946, to become Asia's biggest shopping mall operator with over 30 malls throughout the Philippines. The best quotations and sayings about business with comments.
When you do well, do not change your good ways.
Success is not just good luck. It's a combination of hard work, good credit standing, opportunity, readiness and timing. When opportunity comes, you have to be ready to embrace it. Otherwise it goes to somebody else. Also, success will not last if you don't take care of it.
If I make good today, I want to make better tomorrow. If I have a big shopping mall, my next thing is to have a bigger one. By doing that, I have to work very hard, 10 to 12 hour days.
Without hard work, opportunity is nothing.