Bernard Marcus
Co-founder, ex chairman of the board, The Home Depot
$11.3B
as of 10/04/24
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.
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Citizenship
United States of AmericaSource of wealth
Home DepotResidence
Atlanta, GeorgiaMarital status
MarriedBirth date
05/12/29 (age 95)Number of children
3Education
Bachelor of Arts/Science, Rutgers UniversitySelf-made
self-madeBernard Marcus’s fortune is worth
188K
troy ounces of gold
174K
median U.S. household
113K
median U.S. income
0.226%
U.S. credit card volume
0.045%
GDP of the United States
0.033%
United States debt
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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.
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