Home Depot co-founder and author Bernie Marcus has become a pillar of philanthropy while trying to build the world's largest home improvement retailer.
Bernard "Bernie" Marcus, co-founder of the world's largest home improvement retailer, was dedicated to more than just his day job. into a company with a current market cap of more than $288 billion, Marcus became a pillar of philanthropy as he created institutions and invested in programs that sought to better the lives of people all over the world.
Marcus told FOX Business that he was driven by the need to "look for solutions where there are no solutions," whether it was helping veterans combat post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries , creating one of the largest autism centers in the U.S, or helping a doctor pioneer critical bone marrow transplant research.
The Home Depot co-founders Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank announced the company would be a Centennial Partner of the 1996 Olympic Games, held in the home improvement retailer's headquarters city of Atlanta, Ga. "Miracles never stop," Marcus said. FOX Business caught up with him in the midst of promoting his new book, a business memoir entitled "Kick Up Some Dust: Lessons on Thinking Big, Giving Back, and Doing It Yourself."Marcus, the youngest of four children, was born to Russian immigrants who came to America in search of a better life and settled in a four-floor walk-up tenement in.
"It was not the easiest place in the world. But the truth of the matter is, we had each other," he said. "We survived… my mother said, ‘This is the golden lamp. You could do anything you want here. America is great.'"
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