Francis T. Tsai, senior vice president of Mitac, points out that after a large company in Germany lost more than US $ 100 million last year, a German reporter asked a Taiwan firm at a press conference, "Why are our companies about to fold, and you're still talking 30 percent growth?"
神達電腦資深副總蔡豐賜指出，去年德國有一家大公司虧損了一億多美元，在一次台灣業者舉辦的記者會上，一位德國記者就問道：「為什麼我們的公司已經快垮掉了，你們還在談百分之卅的成長？」