John Gokongwei

My great-great-grandfather lived to age 28, my immigrant great-grandfather Pedro Gotiaoco died at 66, my grandfather was 68, and my father died at 34.

I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.

I don't usually make political comments, because I am a businessman, not a politician.

I've always been very determined, ever since I was a little girl, to make my way.

They said I couldn't play anything but an English boy. I knew I could. So I went to New York.