Charles H.C. Kao, president of Commonwealth Publishing, notes: "A business leader is someone who has made it big in business. A great business leader is someone who is willing to share his or her resources and wealth with society." He rates Wang Yung-ching as one of the very few great business leaders of the past century in either China or Taiwan.
「企業家是企業做很大，偉大的企業家則是願意把資源和財富拿出來和社會分享，」長期觀察台灣企業的天下文化總裁高希均認為，王永慶堪稱兩岸百年來極少數的「偉大的企業家」。