Baron Louis de Cartier de Marchienne (born in Turnhout, 26 september 1921) is a Belgian businessman. He was managing director of the company Eternit in the 1960s, and in 1971 he became Chairman of the Board of the printing company Brepols and led the company through a period of change. His son Jean-Louis de Cartier de Marchienne is a member of the board of Carta Mundi.
Read more about Louis De Cartier De Marchienne: Family, Asbestos, Literature
Famous quotes containing the words louis de and/or louis:
“Vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous. To be convinced of this we need only represent, on the one hand, the numberless benefits which result from vanity, as industry, the arts, fashions, politeness, and taste; and on the other, the infinite evils which spring from the pride of certain nations, a laziness, poverty, a total neglect of everything.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)
“You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894)