Co-founder of The Home Depot, Bernie Marcus, has passed away at the age of 95. He died while at his home located in the state of Florida. This is one is going to hurt, folks. Marcus was a true patriot who used his wealth to help fight against socialism and the radical left-wing agenda that is threatening to destroy our country and harm our fellow citizens by donating to Republicans and other important causes.
According to a report from The Daily Caller, Marcus was the living embodiment of the American Dream. He came from a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants and managed to pull himself up out of poverty, having previously lived in a tenement building in New Jersey, to becoming a billionaire business man after creating Home Depot.
Marcus was worth some $6 billion at the time of his death. An official from the Jobs Creator Network, a nonprofit group set up by the billionaire for small businesses, said that he died from natural causes. Marcus was a Republican mega-donor and Trump supporter. The Home Depot employs nearly 500,000 workers across thousands of stores throughout the United States. “The entire Home Depot family is deeply saddened by the death of our co-founder Bernie Marcus. He’s left us with an invaluable legacy and the backbone of our company: our values and our culture. He will be tremendously missed,” the company said in a statement on social media.
The entire Home Depot family is deeply saddened by the death of our co-founder Bernie Marcus. He’s left us with an invaluable legacy and the backbone of our company: our values and our culture. He will be tremendously missed. https://t.co/qdgssDmBdX pic.twitter.com/yaA79cGlea
— The Home Depot (@HomeDepot) November 5, 2024
“He [Marcus] was a master merchant and a retail visionary. But even more importantly, he valued our associates, customers and communities above all,” a Home Depot spokesperson said in a statement given to the New York Post.
Interestingly, what ultimately led to Marcus establishing Home Depot was being fired from a home improvement company at the age of 49. Which just goes to show you that you are never too old to start a new career or build a business. “Before Home Depot, it was all stores that if you wanted to buy electrical stuff, you went to an electrical store, you went to a hardware store, you went to a paint store. And we just took that and put that under one roof. Our concept took hold,” Marcus stated in a video that was uploaded by the Jobs Creator Network in his honor.
In Memoriam: Bernie Marcus, 1929-2024, founder of JCN and co-founder of The Home Depot pic.twitter.com/8shtoCZYKe
— Job Creators Network (@JobCreatorsUSA) November 5, 2024
Marcus consistently stated that his success was the result of living in a capitalist country and often promoted the free market system that comprises our economy, referring to it as the greatest engine of wealth creation in all of human history.
“While some may say that socialism is well intentioned, the fact is it robs people of their independence, their dignity and their finances,” he went on to say. Socialism in turn translates to “government dependence, suppression of ideas and lower standards of living.”