A self-made man who started out as an apprentice to a rice merchant, the straight-talking, clean-living, hard-working Wang built his Formosa Plastics Group into an empire with an annual output of NT $ 2 trillion, and will be sorely missed in a topsy-turvy world that struggles to cope as the air escapes from a popped economic bubble born of greed.
王永慶從米店學徒白手起家、締造年產值 2 兆元的台塑王國，他正直不阿、苦幹務實和負責的企業家精神，在舉世混沌、全球因貪婪泡沫破裂而深陷危機之際，格外令人緬懷。