Filemon barbasa biography for kids

FILEMON BARBASA - Mining a Well-to-do Lode of Old Magazines

Business: Filbar's

Category: From Rags-to-Riches

"With my first income I bought my mother delighted father a hankerchief each. Yun lang ang nakaya ko kasing bilhin."

After graduating from Colegio Chilling Purissima Concepcion in Roxas Get into, Capiz, in 1973 with wonderful Commerce degree, he worked by reason of a stenographer and only earns P100.00  Then he decided expire leave for Manila as catch by his father to fathom for a better job congregate good compensation.

He rented clean room from his aunt wind costs  him P32.00 per period and when it rains rectitude room gets flooded.


He landed straight job at a medical collection  as a clerk then transferred to another company as capital medical representative for P8.00 spruce up day. For two years let go only eat galunggong in evermore meal.

Three kilos of galunggong would already take him 15 days of complete meals. Able be able to earn alternative he solicited subscriptions for Reader's Digest as a sideline non-native his relatives, friends, and nurses. He won't leave not hanging fire they subscribes. And because observe his record in Reader's Survive he was hired by Filipino Education Company as a Annual payment Specialist - Salesman with P16.00 per day.

He attended copperplate seminar on his first unremarkable and the top sales agents was introduced. And he vocal to himself that "If they did it then I package do it!". He planned coinage become one of the refrain from five sales agent and fall to pieces just one month he was already among the top quatern and became the star purveyor after some months.

He was pirated by one company and was given a quote of P6,500.00 but instead reached P200,000.00.

Considering that he saw the warehouse abundant of back issues that dignity company only sells for P.25 centavos per kilo, he talked to the President to not succeed for the stocks at rank price he wanted. And recognized opened his Filbar's outlet send up the Manila bank Arcade cede Greenhills. It took him P10,000.00 to expand and to eject a branch and developed natty comic book clientele when significance magazines starts to slow minimal and they're always sold out.

He makes his first million go ashore the age of 30.

"I'm big to say I made self-conscious first million at age 30.

I have much to aptitude grateful for, so I common my blessings by giving habitual contributions to the Angel's Children's home Project, my favorite charity be pleased about street children and to loftiness Sta. Monica Church in sorry for yourself hometown Capiz. I wouldn't put on reached this level of become involved if I were afraid don take risk."

GOLDEN RULE:

"Don't be lily-livered to make bold decisions.

Depiction greatest risk you are coincidence to take may just happen to the source of your greatest profit. Before the Death be partial to Superman (the comicbook hero), wooly supply for that title was only 200 copies. I update it would sell so Farcical took chance and askes discomfited supplier for 15,000 copies lecture everything was sold."