Bernie Marcus: “My Life Began When I Was Fired at 49”
Randy Jones | April 9, 2009
Bernie Marcus is, without question, one of the greatest American self-made success stories of all time. The company he founded, Home Depot, has immeasurably changed the landscape of virtually every town America. Marcus’s Home Depot added its trademark orange to the red, white, and blue American Dream of owning your own home and finding pleasure in fixing it up. Today Home Depot has more than 2,200 stores across North America.