When I returned to Taiwan in 1972, 20 years ago, there simply weren't any decent bookstores. Culture and economics, I felt, are the twin wheels that drive a country's development, and businessmen, in particular, have to read a lot, so I founded Yung Han Bookstore to introduce books on Japanese-style management and various Japanese publications.
我在民國六十一年重回台灣，廿年前，台灣根本沒有什麼像樣的書局，可是我覺得文化和經濟是推動國家發展的兩個輪子，尤其企業家一定要多念書，所以才藉永漢書局，引進日本式的企管叢書以及各種日本圖書。