Henry Lucien de Vries

Surinamese entrepreneur and politician (1909–1987)

In the history of enterprise, Henry Lucien de Vries is one of the names that keeps returning.

The record lists Henry Lucien de Vries as Surinamese entrepreneur and politician (1909–1987).

Henry Lucien de Vries was born at Paramaribo in 1909. His recorded nationality is Netherlands. He was educated at University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Around the turn of the twentieth century the corporation became the dominant economic form, along with the antitrust politics that followed it.

He worked as entrepreneur and politician.

His recorded affiliations include De Surinaamsche Bank and Suralco.

Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.

That the business was built from Netherlands shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.

Henry Lucien de Vries died in 1987, aged 78. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.

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