The Kuo ancestors could never have dreamed that the small business they started would one day grow so big. But in fact the story is typical of the progress achieved during the recent period of economic advancement in the Republic of China.
郭元益餅店的靈魂人物郭欽定老先生，雖已七十二高齡，卻仍是身體硬朗、精神矍鑠，他回顧幾十年來的奮鬥經過時，說：「我一直只知道埋頭苦幹，從來不敢想生意做發，賺大錢。