Frank Stronach, CM (born Franz Strohsack, 6 September 1932) is an Austrian-Canadian businessman and politician.
He is the founder of Magna International, an international automotive parts company based in Aurora, Ontario, Canada, and Magna Entertainment Corp., which specializes in horse-racing entertainment. With an estimated net worth of $US 1.7 billion (as of March 2011), Stronach was ranked by Forbes as the 21st wealthiest Canadian and 736th in the world.
In 2011, he entered Austrian politics: founding the Stronach Institute to campaign for classical liberalism and against the Euro. In 2012, he founded the political party Team Stronach for Austria.
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Famous quotes containing the word frank:
“Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks;
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.”
—Anonymous. Late 19th century ballad.
The quatrain refers to the famous case of Lizzie Borden, tried for the murder of her father and stepmother on Aug. 4, 1892, in Fall River, Massachusetts. Though she was found innocent, there were many who contested the verdict, occasioning a prodigious output of articles and books, including, most recently, Frank Spiering’s Lizzie (1985)