Bernard Marcus

$11.1B

as of 11/05/24

About Bernard Marcus

Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank cofounded Home Depot in 1978 after being fired from their jobs at a regional hardware store.

In 1981, Marcus, Blank and early investor Ken Langone took Home Depot public. All three men are now billionaires.

Marcus, who signed the Giving Pledge with his wife in 2010, has given away nearly $2 billion to education, hospitals and Jewish causes.

He threw a party for his 90th birthday in 2019 and raised $117 million for his favorite nonprofits. President Trump sent a personal note, too.

Marcus was born to Russian immigrant parents, who sought the "golden land" in the U.S. and ended up in a fourth-floor walk-up tenement in N.J.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Home Depot

Birth date

05/12/29

Number of children

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Rutgers University

Self-made

self-made

Bernard Marcus’s fortune is worth

185K

troy ounces of gold

171K

median U.S. household

111K

median U.S. income

0.222%

U.S. credit card volume

0.044%

GDP of the United States

0.033%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

In the early days of Home Depot no one came into the store, so Marcus and Blank sent their kids out into the streets to hand $1 bills to anyone willing to walk in.