Hugo Lerchenfeld Quotes
Business can never be carried on without optimism, and the New World is essentially optimistic. But at the same time optimism does not absolve us from weighing carefully all possible difficulties.
Count Hugo Lerchenfeld, 1871-1944, Prime Minister of Bavaria, Member of the Committee for Foreign Affairs of the German Reichstag, “Dawn”, Foreign Affairs, September 1923
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Here he tried to assure everyone that he would not have a conflict of interest. He had created the largest cell phone company in Thailand and others making him the richest Thai. He argued that he no longer owned any businesses as he had transferred all his holdings to his wife and children. He was later convicted of corruption having transferred millions of dollars of government money to his maid and chauffer (without their knowledge) to hide the money the had taken. He jumped bail and fled the country after his conviction and ran his Pheu Thai Party, from abroad. He then had his sister, Yingluck Shinawatra, run in the next election and she was elected Prime Minister and so he continued to control much of the country but could not return last he be jailed.
